[haiku] Re: Slogan for Haiku.

  • From: PHilip RUshik <prushik@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:57:52 -0400

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Simon Taylor <simontaylor1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> > I still think some kind of quick haiku would be an appropriate slogan
> > for Haiku :)
>
> I won the BeOS Journal Haiku contest in 2004 with this little beauty
> garnering a total of 3 votes:
>
> Get more done with less
> The essence of a Haiku
> The same with the OS
>
> Managed to find a list of the other entries too:
> http://haikunews.org/text/858
>
> I thought that it might be nice to have a random "Haiku on Haiku" appear
> somewhere on the homepage, but I don't think the project really needs a
> slogan as such. Less is more. Now there's a slogan... :)
>
> Simon
>
> ps: Bikeshed alert!!!
>
>
Its a nice Haiku, but to many average users it might suggest that Haiku has
less functionality than other OS's. calling it "less" without a more
detailed explanation (which would be impossible to insert into a haiku) just
seems like a bad idea to me.
I like the idea of a haiku for Haiku though.

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