The opendarwin .com debacle

Jordan K. Hubbard jkh at apple.com
Mon Oct 26 14:29:52 PDT 2009


Maybe it's about putting up the appropriate keywords for google to  
find then?  Someone on this list ought to know the tricks...

On Oct 22, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> The real problem here is one of branding.  Why/where are users even  
>> hearing the name "darwinports" when it's been essentially dead for  
>> over 3 years?  Projects rename themselves all the time and somehow  
>> manage to make the name change stick.  What this project needs to  
>> ask itself is why the name change has not stuck as successfully  
>> here and then fix that problem rather than re-fighting old battles.
>
> Search for "pspp mac" and you'll find dp.com sitting at #4 or #5.   
> This demonstrates at least one way people are finding it:  searching  
> for the open source project they want and "mac".  In my example,  
> simply searching for "pspp" will not being up dp.com.
>
> Macports is nowhere to be found, btw.
>



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