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The XBMC Project Will Now Be Called Kodi

Posted by Soulskill on from the lessons-in-picking-a-name dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Citing the problems caused by the lack of legal control over the current name and its long outdated origins as the reasons for the change, The Xbox Media Center team announced that they will switch the project's name to Kodi when version 14 is released later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."

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  1. Work by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    Most important piece from the story,
    Now I have to rename my media server from XBMC-PC...

  2. sounds like an outpost planet by turkeydance · · Score: 3, Interesting

    i blame Exxon, they started it. Esso was so sublime.

  3. Re:This naming trend has to stop by ihtoit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Access (obviously a password management tool). Excel (clearly a standardised testing suite). Powerpoint (specialised electrical/electronic interface tool). SQL (who the hell knows what this is?). Outlook (Ah, this is obvious - a weather app).

    Janus, Snowball, O'Hare, Memphis, Daytona, Cairo*, Whistler*, Longhorn, Vienna.

    *Cairo was the codename for NT4.0 and Whistler the codename for xp, but x and p are the Greek letters chi and rho. Mind blowed yet?

    I like the OpenOffice/LibreOffice naming convention for the suite components: Write, Draw, Impress, Base, Calc, Math. I mean, how user friendly do you want it?

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  4. Kodi means flag in Tamil. by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There was this long discussion in that site about the meaning of Kodi and whether or not it is suitable for this package. Kodi means flag, (the flappy thing that flutters from a flagpole flag, not flag meaning getting tired). That is if you say kodi like you say "midi" in the midi-skirt. If you say it more like ko-die it would mean an umbrella or a donation. I don't know much else about the software.

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  5. What were the Other Options? by wisnoskij · · Score: 1, Interesting

    "Giant Douche" and "Turd Sandwich"?

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