Fedora Workstation product name

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 6 20:33:23 UTC 2013


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 9:29 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-11-06 at 08:31 -0500, Jaroslav Reznik wrote:
>
>> > And
>> > the KDE one
>> > didn't really worked in the end everyone just calls it (the desktop) "KDE".
>>
>> I'm aware of that but as I said - it was due to communication/marketing
>> mistakes.
>
> Eh, I wouldn't agree with that. I got the re-name message well enough
> when it happened but I kept calling it KDE because, c'mon, it's fricking
> KDE. It just *is* KDE. I think some names are solidly enough baked-in
> that you can't really change them.

Yeah and even the "Fedora Core" name took a long time to get out of
people's mind.
Even HP was referring to Fedora as "Fedora Core" in BIOS changelogs
years after we renamed it.


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