Re:This is the silliest Slashdot discussion. Ever.
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I'm sure I'm not the first to observe this, but it's quite cool that something can become as popular and widespread as Linux without there being any consensus about how the word is pronounced.
There was a time, in the dark days before the Internet, when it was considered commercial suicide to release a product with a hard-to-pronounce name, on the grounds that people would be embarrassed to ask for it. Just another bit of established commercial wisdom that doesn't seem to apply these days.
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Like this for example ;-)
There was a time, in the dark days before the Internet, when it was considered commercial suicide to release a product with a hard-to-pronounce name, on the grounds that people would be embarrassed to ask for it. Just another bit of established commercial wisdom that doesn't seem to apply these days.