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caLRo » Sat Oct 29, 2016 9:23 am
slipstick wrote:But since there already exist thousands of places on the Internet where LMMS is spelled out as Linux MultiMedia Studio anyone searching for LMMS in the foreseeable future is going to trip over that name. It's simply not going to go away.
You can try to add another version of the name if you like but that's just going make it confusing as people try to work out if your "Liberal Music Mangling Suite" or whatever is the same thing as the well-known and respected "Linux MultiMedia Studio" or if it's something completely different.
As they say "If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it"
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Steve
To get all politically on you: "That's something only a conservative would say. I'm a progressive."
Yes, the old name is still out there and it will persist, but that is partly due to not having a new interpretation to replace it in the first place. In terms of branding, the mistake was not dropping the old name, but rather not coming up with a replacement once the old name was dropped.
Since LMMS is obviously an acronym due to lack of a vowel or an identifiable word in it, people will want to look for an interpretation. We can either give them one that we all (officially) agree on, or give them a list of good options, making something positive out of the ambiguity. Doing nothing would mean defaulting to the old name.