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New Techrights Campaigns: Suggestions Needed

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Summary: Apple- and Microsoft-targeted campaigns to launch shortly, but name/identity is to be decided by you, dear reader

WE have not yet swapped domains and we very soon will (boycottnovell.com and other domains to link to techrights.org), but the general idea is to make "Boycott Novell" just one campaign among several. As a start, while someone is trying to piece together a permanent site logo, we are trying to come with catchy and playful names for Microsoft and Apple campaigns. Each of these needs to be something gentle and informative (like "Vista 7", which ought to remind people that Windows 7 is just Vista re-branded, plus very few other things).



“The names and the images ought to be humourous and polite.”Before we redesign the site to accommodate -- structurally -- the new content, we wish to ask for suggestions of names for a campaign regarding Microsoft and a campaign regarding Apple.

For Apple, suggestions that we got so far are: "Evil Toys", "Evil Fruit", "Fruit of Evil", "Fruit of the Devil", "MacinToy", "MacinTrash", "iBoycott Apple", "iAvoid Apple", "MAChinations"

For Microsoft, suggestions that we received are: "Boycott Microsoft", "Save The World From Microsoft", "Microsoft: An Ongoing Expose", "Diablo's Blog", "InvestigateMS"

Some readers were upset that we didn't give enough time for people to vote on or approve "Techrights", so this one we won't decide or for a few days to come. When that's all done, artwork would be welcome too (e.g. for the front page), so readers/contributors can send it over as they quite frequently do.

The names and the images ought to be humourous and polite. I never chose the name "Boycott Novell" and I never liked it either. It's too abrasive to be effective, but it stayed for consistency. "Boycott Novell" is not going anywhere, either. It becomes a campaign rather than the whole Web site's name.

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