I have a question about the history of the Haiku name selection. General FAQ briefly mentions it:
OpenBeOS was eventually renamed to Haiku to avoid trademark conflicts. The name “Haiku” got the most votes in a public poll in late 2002. Competing candidates were: Auros, Begin, Dysis, Firebox, Firefly, Forge, Indigo, Infinity, Jaffa, Mantis, Menlo, Nemo, Nova, Terra.
Old HaikuWare page contained way more details. The site is no more available, luckily there’s the archived copy.
But it lacks the answer to an interesting question:
- How was the allocation of votes to the different name-proposals?
TODO (Michael Phipps looks into it. Thx)
In the archived copy there’s just a TODO and the link to the related discussion where Michael Phipps states:
Allocation of votes - I can dig that up, I think. I have my old BeOS hard drive
here.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen the voting results before but cannot find it anywhere atm. Does anyone still have that data available?
