Talk:Freedows OS

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The first version was a quick page to get the ball rolling. Wikipedians, if anyone has time, the included links should allow anyone to make this a much better description. The "wiki" from tunes.org has very good writeups for this and related info, but I don't know enough about licensing to want to try to include it. Maybe someone could try to do that?

It can be included. I asked.

http://tunes.org/wiki/Talk:Freedows 71.81.52.23 00:03, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Free DOS"?

As I recall, it was meant to be a pun on Fritos corn chips; the motto "not just a snack" was used in the early days of the project. I can't find a source for this, though. Sw2k7 (talk) 03:50, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Does a primary source, right here, from the person who named it count as a source? :-) If so, the story is a little more complicated -- the original name of it was intended to be MultiOS, but I ultimately rejected it after some consideration. The next idea was the one that was ultimately used -- Freedows ("'98" and later "OS"). The article is accurate to suggest Freedows is a portmanteau of "free" and "windows" (akin to Freedos), but it was definitely not named that way to be a pun on the corn chips. One of the early project members, however, indicated that he thought "Not just a snack anymore" would be a good motto (given how similar the name sounds) -- that was shortened to "Not just a snack," giving pretty much the only semi-official motto we used throughout the duration of the project. It also seemed like an appropriate motto to illustrate that it wasn't intended to be a "weak" OS -- i.e. it wasn't just "a snack." :-) Succinctly: the motto was partially a pun on corn chips, but the original name had nothing to do with them. As an aside, the main corn chip brand I was familiar with was the one most popular in Western Canada, and the one I ate, Old Dutch. I don't recall that the name similarity to Fritos even occurred to me until it was pointed out by the aforementioned project member. Reecesel (talk) 19:26, 21 January 2008 (UTC)