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Because... it's the marketing droid in charge of the
visuals for this product line who OK'd the name on
the CD artwork - which was my original question.
I can report it accurately or fudge it as you say,
but if thousands of CDs go out with an improper
name (from a preserve your trademark perspective)...
Anyway, the "Lumpy" line includes half a dozen other
products, as well, and those have similar, but not
identical toolkit CDs and document CDs for each.
David Neeley [mailto:dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com] noted:
> Kevin,
>
> Personally, I am usually for hewing to the KISS principle.
>
> Since the instructions will ship with one or the other product and not
> both, why not something simpler that finesses the problem and saves
> space to boot:
>
> "Insert the Lumpy Toolkit CD."
>
> It would be darned difficult to mistake which CD is meant and the
> results would be appropriate for users of either product.
>
> You also avoid the unnecessary complexity of both the
> original suggestions.
>
> David
>
> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 09:00,
> <techwr-l-request -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> wrote:
> > From: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
>
> > It's just the one toolkit that is shipped with either of those
> > two products, which are very similar, but one has a feature
> > that makes it address a specific (higher-end) market
> > niche... and pocket-book.
> >
> > - Kevin
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