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What about hellios or Satan? <br>
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and my favorite one 'phantom'.<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/11/2015 17:49, shirish wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:563B96AF.9040401@hamaralinux.org" type="cite">Hi
all,
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There had been quite a bit of discussion of having alternate names
for 'Mozilla Firefox' the browser and the term 'browser' as well.
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Am CCing Sam as he is into designing and creativity, so he might
be able to provide some more pointers to us.
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The single reason why 'Mozilla Firefox' not is that the license
under which MPL (Mozilla Public License) operates simply states
that if you change the branding, change anything you can't anymore
call it Firefox.
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Also there are many functionalities in the browser itself that we
would be looking at taking out (and probably might use the debian
iceweasel package as a base to start to do that) and even strip
more if needed.
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So in both or in either of the cases we would need to change the
branding anyway to make it hamara and in doing so, we would need
to have a new name.
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So if we have to have a new name, what name should it have ?
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What it should not be :-
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a. It should not be long name
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b. It should not be a generic name
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c. It should not be an inanimate name
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d. No abstract terms as well.
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What it could have or needs to have -
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a. It could be short
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b. It could have a name which can be translated into few languages
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c. The name should evoke an image
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d. We should be able to design a mascot around it
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Some terms which have been shared so far :-
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librekingkid/Raju shared 'bharari' - which apparently means to
take a jump.
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mandiv/mangesh shared agniyan - I *think* the name might be
copyrighted, but if not could be a good one . It is easy to
understand the term, it is short and we should be able to design a
logo and a mascot around it. 'Agniyan' literally means 'fireship'
or 'fire vehicle' . We could have a mascot called 'Agniyan' who
zooms from Mahajaal to Mahajaal (that is what Internet is called
in Hindi and Internet or Interweb is webs of web)
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A play on it was shared by shared by Akshat as 'Prakashvaeg' which
literally means 'lightspeed' which again could be turned into a
mascot and a logo as well, although it might be more difficult
than the one above to depict.
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People were tired and hence couldn't talk much more and an idea
was shared that we could even take some term from Sanskrit . The
benefit of having a term in Sanskrit is if it's not long we could
get the same name/term in many an Indian languages and the names
would not differ much as most Indian languages are based on
Sanskrit.
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Look forward to more ideas on the same, if something jump-starts,
just reply here.
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