Those that want to play like a child can keep on adding things to the name, but for the rest of the people it's just a name, it's easy to recognize that it's coming from the previous version so people won't be confused and new users won't be able to complain about bad words.
@wheezer, while I definitely agree with many points of your observation, there is one thing that must be considered and that was the key to decide for CKEditor: we are not talking about a new product. FCKeditor has been around for five years. Its name is well recognized by a huge slice of the market.
I would be much happier to continue with our current name, but we are forced to "fix" it. So, as a fix, we decided to continue with the same line, applying a minor change to it, instead of a drastic move. Considering the reason for the change and the current state of things, I think that this decision makes a lot of sense.
CKEditor works well, and yes it is better in English than FCKEditor from a marketing perspective. We can be fairly certain that no negative connotations exist in other languages simply because the CK (Calvin Klien) brand will have already looked into it.
It occurred to me that, provided the name works well on most marketing levels, it doesnt really matter that much as the name can change in future if the product morphs into something bigger, or indeed different than its current form - Azureus / Vuze being one example. I'm sure most of us that have hung our professional hats on Fredrico's excellent product over the past three or four years expect that it will continue to grow over many years, and may indeed find many names. Its particularly nice that Fredrico's personal identity is still associated with the name.
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Those that want to play like a child can keep on adding things to the name, but for the rest of the people it's just a name, it's easy to recognize that it's coming from the previous version so people won't be confused and new users won't be able to complain about bad words.
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What should it be?
"Freditor."
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I would be much happier to continue with our current name, but we are forced to "fix" it. So, as a fix, we decided to continue with the same line, applying a minor change to it, instead of a drastic move. Considering the reason for the change and the current state of things, I think that this decision makes a lot of sense.
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It occurred to me that, provided the name works well on most marketing levels, it doesnt really matter that much as the name can change in future if the product morphs into something bigger, or indeed different than its current form - Azureus / Vuze being one example. I'm sure most of us that have hung our professional hats on Fredrico's excellent product over the past three or four years expect that it will continue to grow over many years, and may indeed find many names. Its particularly nice that Fredrico's personal identity is still associated with the name.
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