Re: This thing we called GNUstep (Re: Kickstarter was not successful... but it did help things...)

[Doc O'Leary]

In article <mailman.10084.1387739794.10748.discuss-gnustep@gnu.org>,
 Pirmin Braun <pb@intars.de> wrote:

> I estimate that 90 % of all current Objective-C programmers are in the Apple 
> bubble so approaching them with a Apple-ish name would be the right thing.

That makes sense for various sub-projects, but I'm talking about the 
umbrella name for the overall effort.  Just like OpenStep references got 
dated when Apple started calling it Cocoa, so too would a Cocoa-derived 
name if Apple decided to change that.  It may not be likely, but I don't 
see much point in abandoning the GNUstep name if it is even a 
possibility.  So my compromise was to just turn the "step" into a verb.

> And those looking for a development environment will more likely search for
> "programming on Linux and Windows like on MOSX or iOS" than for "Objective-*"

I'm sure the search engines could figure it out, just like they already 
do for GNUstep.

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