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Acer's Linpus Linux Lite (Fedora) ultra portable laptop piles the pressure on Microsoft (FSM)Acer's Linpus Linux Lite (Fedora) ultra portable laptop piles the pressure on Microsoft (FSM)Posted Jul 5, 2008 18:34 UTC (Sat) by PO8 (guest, #41661)Parent article: Acer's Linpus Linux Lite (Fedora) ultra portable laptop piles the pressure on Microsoft (FSM)
I understand that it's a popular Asian brand, and all. But seriously, "Linpus"? Is that because it's got "Open Sores"? Somebody in the marketing dept. is a mole. I can promise you that no one in Microsoft will ever, ever name a product "Micropus".
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Acer's Linpus Linux Lite (Fedora) ultra portable laptop piles the pressure on Microsoft (FSM) Posted Jul 6, 2008 8:07 UTC (Sun) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link] I know... Somebody needs to tell Linpus that their brand name is disastrously bad. Analysing brand names for unfortunate meanings in different languages/cultures is Marketing 101, see http://www.linguist.com/guidelines_ordering_brand_analysi... for an example of what this involves.
And yet... Posted Jul 7, 2008 15:47 UTC (Mon) by GreyWizard (subscriber, #1026) [Link] And yet Microsoft named the embedded variant of their operating system "wince" (WinCE). Marketing. Go figure.
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