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The XBMC Project Will Now Be Called Kodi
An anonymous reader writes: Citing the problems caused by the lack of legal control over the current name and its long outdated origins as the reasons for the change, The Xbox Media Center team announced that they will switch the project's name to Kodi when version 14 is released later this year. If you're wondering how they picked the name Kodi, here's what they said: "We considered a TON of names. We had a number of requirements for the new name, such as being reasonably pronounceable in various languages and not be a mouthful to say, not be used as a trademark for someone else's media-related product, be easy to remember, etc. The group came up with a list of names and had our lawyer go over them. We then got back a smaller list that had been checked for various legal issues, and then we voted on the final name."
ah bollocks, time for the second choice then: The Roof Shingles.
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Kobi works well enough.
Obviously not well enough since you couldn't even remember the correct name.
Nice, you now have Karnal knowledge!
Stop being an asshole. They aren't even using the name yet, so it's not surprise that people aren't familiar with it yet. Once Godi is released and people are using it, you can try to gauge how memorable the name is.
I hate grammar Nazi's.
In the spirit of GNU, they should just make it Xbmc Based Media Center