Re: Slashdot effect
Hi Margarita,
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 11:13:57AM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> On 1/28/07, Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> wrote:
> >Due to continued problems with "Slashdot effect" I've moved this
> >temporarily
> >to gluck (http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ now redirects automaticaly).
>
> Is "goodbye-microsoft" really the better name for this? I understand
> that it can be funny. But:
>
> 1) It's aggressive
I don't think it is. Agressive would be something like "Ditch the crap
out of your computer and get a real OS". There's nothing wrong with
advertising as long as it's not insulting (they do the same, remember the
commercial with penguins and all that?).
> 2) It does not say anything about debian
I believe if the domain name stays neutral it'll have more chances to
attract non-debian members of the free software community that will use
it for advocacy.
And at the end, there's only Debian ;)
> 3) You might even be accused of trademark infringement
Trademarks don't work like this. Infringement would be to use the
trademarked to *refer* to my product. Since my product is clearly
referred to as "Debian-Installer Loader", there's no chance it can be
confused with a Microsoft product.
> 4) the .com at the end is misleading
Yes, but unfortunately .com extension has lost all its meaning nowadays.
I opted for .com because that makes it easier to remember.
> However, I like the installer for windows idea. Thus, I propose to
> change this into non-aggressive, non-microsoft, debian name as in:
>
> * get-debian.org (This could even be get.debian.org and be the
> official d-i, g-i, w-d-i page)
> * automatic-debian.org
> * dive-into-debian.org
> * plug-into-debian.org
> * startup-debian.org
> * debian-for-newbies.org
> * debian-for-windows.org
> * etc, etc, etc
>
> I don't know if using "for windows" is trademark infrigement. It probably
> is :-\
If you want register any of these domain names, feel free to. Just let me
know so that I can add it to my apache configuration.
There's nothing wrong with the same site having multiple names :-)
Note, however, that using get.debian.org would imply this is an official
Debian project, which is not (yet) the case. I intend to integrate it in
the distribution post-etch, though.
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