**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sat Jul 29 03:00:01 2017 Jul 29 16:52:48 mickeyl: yr blog on /. https://linux.slashdot.org/story/17/07/29/0842242/openmoko-ten-years-after Jul 29 16:55:16 HAH Jul 29 16:55:52 heh OpenBoogers Jul 29 17:06:14 old news. bootloader DirtyMoko Jul 29 17:07:13 I guess Sean and Harald had little thought about international name compliance testing, back when Jul 29 17:07:36 iirc Sony spent several millions on the name alone Jul 29 17:08:02 ... wut Jul 29 17:08:21 Sonny iirc sounded nasty in Korean, or somesuch. Sunny was nasty in some other places of the world Jul 29 17:08:25 oh, as in Sony spent millions on 'Sony' ? Jul 29 17:08:32 yes Jul 29 17:10:27 http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2016/01/how-sony-got-its-name.html didn't read Jul 29 17:17:28 name research is a huge business Jul 29 17:17:57 Siemens spends big money to come up with bullshit like SiePass Jul 29 17:18:10 or was it SiPass? Jul 29 17:18:27 prolly sip ass Jul 29 17:19:45 think Toyota COROLLA Jul 29 17:20:52 unless they call their car Pajero, they usually do an incredible amount of research to find a good international unused name Jul 29 17:22:16 another prominent example: Miev which sound slike German Mief aka smell Jul 29 17:24:20 kawasaki complained to a forum poster that they never would call any of their motorbikes "KZ1000" at least in Germany Jul 29 17:25:53 I resort their name however as "was a kacki" Jul 29 17:25:56 ;-P Jul 29 17:26:19 (what a shit) Jul 29 17:29:43 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Pajero Jul 29 17:30:58 quite on topic: Nokia Lumia Jul 29 17:31:06 (hooker) Jul 29 17:31:36 also Spanish Jul 29 17:33:48 Nokia maemo bootloader: NOLO (conflicts in Norwegian or somewhere around there). firmware images: FIASCO Jul 29 17:34:30 they have fun with that issue it seems **** ENDING LOGGING AT Sun Jul 30 03:00:01 2017