RE: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen

["McDonald, Dan" <Dan.McDonald (at) austinenergy.com>]

Hobbit, iirc, was originally a backronym for Highly Optimized Big Brother <mumble>.

So, we can just reverse the order: Tibboh "<mumble> Big Brother Optimized Highly"

The name looks obscure enough to get passed most PHBs, and we'd all know...


-----Original Message-----
From: Geoff Hallford [mailto:geoff.hallford (at) gmail.com]
Sent: Fri 01-Aug-08 8:40
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will happen
 
I would agree with the list so far. Hobbitmon is the best option  given so
far but I have rolled out Hobbit to a number of organizations and they all
have issue with the name, as some even roll out to their client orgs and
don't think it looks good on them (even though they LOVE the product and so
do I). Maybe time for a more corporate name (and possibly to remove the
smiley, frownie faces from the dashboard :) I know I can do this myself,
but......

It is not good when some co-workers send you emails with a picture of Frodo
and a Monitor Lizard morphed together :(

Geoff

'Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.' --Yogi Berra


On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Kauffman, Tom <KauffmanT (at) nibco.com> wrote:

> Ya, mon! Hobbitmon is acceptable. H.O.B.B.I.T. looks like part of a (bad)
> '60s spy thriller title ("The man from H.O.B.B.I.T.", with Bono playing the
> part of Henrik Stoerner).
>
> This should probably be considered a short-term fix. As others have said,
> it may be time to pick up a more "corporate" name. I'm brain-dead right now,
> and all I'm coming up with is 'memonsys' (Massively Extendable MONitoring
> SYStem).
>
> Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ulric Eriksson [mailto:ulric (at) siag.nu]
> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 12:52 PM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] "Hobbit" name legal stuff; slight name change will
> happen
>
> Change the name or kill the lawyers? Let's do both! :D
>
> Hobbitmon is quite acceptable, I think.
>
> Ulric
>
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