Re: [tdf-discuss] [GENERAL] New name

[Marc Paré <marc@marcpare.com>]

 Le 2010-10-03 05:39, Michèle Garoche a écrit :
> On 3 oct. 10, at 10:28, Marc Paré wrote:
>
> > > And there you have the problem: You have to explain it. Good 
> > > marketing requires that you engage with customers' existing 
> > > understanding and expectations. "Well, you see, the name come 
> > > from..." "Yeah, forget it."
> > >
> > > > The name should not matter, what matters is that users of 
> > > > OpenSource/Free S
> > > > oftware folks have an office suite that is not tied up to a single 
>
> > > > company
> > > > or entity that will control the code.
> > > >
> > > > Antonio
> > >
> > > Again, exactly correct: the name _should_ not matter. Unfortunately 
>
> > > names _do_ matter. Bad names do and have sunk good projects, whilst 
>
> > > good names have successfully sold bad projects.
> > Hi Ron:
> >
> > Actually, I think that you will find that most latin-based languages 
>
> > will have not problems with the significance or pronunciation of the 
>
> > word "Libre". If you then take into account people who have studied 
>
> > a second latin-base language, they would have studied the word 
> > "libre" as part of their core vocabulary list. I am not sure of the 
>
> > other language base pronunciation of "libre". I think is this is the 
>
> > real issue that you are raising, the pronunciation. However, I don't 
>
> > believe it to be such a large problem. Yes, if you count the number 
>
> > of people who would need to hear an example of the accepted 
> > pronunciation of "LibreOffice" (as pointed out in one of the 
> > responses, the French version would approach more of the phonetic 
> > version of "leebrohfece" (for English speaking people), the numbers 
>
> > could be considered high. But in the context of people having enough 
>
> > cultural knowledge to pronounce the word without any coaching is 
> > probably quite extensive by comparison.
> >
> > So, I agree with one of the responders who suggested that we could 
> > perhaps post a "sound" file (let's keep it as an OSS format) on the 
>
> > main Mageia page, in both male/female versions (hey, let's get a 
> > younger boy/girl version too!), of the accepted pronunciation of the 
>
> > LibreOffice suite. We can all remember the "Linux" pronunciation 
> > arguments, and in the end, the father of Linux decreed: "Pronounce it 
> > like you want!" It is just great that you can advocate its use to 
>
> > anyone who is willing to listen, regardless of the pronunciation.
> In French that sounds like that:
> (m4a)
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> Michèle
Désolé Michèle:

The ML does not permit attachments. Perhaps if it were posted in a site?

Merci

Marc
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