[CMake-Promote] Re: CBorg

[Brandon Van Every]

That exciting huh?


On Feb 2, 2008 1:22 PM, Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm contemplating a strategic plan over the next year, designed to
> make me money as a CMake build consultant and spread the glory of
> CMake.  Let's say for sake of argument I wrote an automated translator
> from various build systems to CMake.  I have experience doing
> automated translation from Autoconf and GMake, and I'd probably go
> after SCons in order to knock them out as well.  Let's say further
> that I created a website that slurps up open source projects, attempts
> to automagically translate them, and posts the degree to which the
> translation succeeds.  Some kind of glorified Dart2 server.  I'd
> target leading open source projects and use them as guinea pigs.
>
> What if I called this tool "CBorg," as in the Borg from Star Trek?
> Let's say the website has messages like, "Resistance is futile, you
> will be assimilated."  Would it be well received by techies?  Would it
> make some techies mad, that they're being treated like subjects of the
> Borg?  Would it create any inadvertent associations with Microsoft,
> which is sometimes referred to as the Borg?  Would people's anger,
> frustration, and gnashing of teeth actually be a good thing, causing
> infamy to spread around the globe, whatever the heck it is about?  Is
> the technical connotation of being "like the Borg" not really all that
> exciting?  Are there other softwares that have tried this sort of Borg
> identity and failed at it?
>
> Can you think of a better brand identity for the technological project
> I have in mind?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Brandon Van Every
>