On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote:
> Ross, thanks for bringing this up! I'm happy to be a part of this > experiment. > Cool. > While owning the "Stratos" trademark would certainly put us in a position > of being able to ask WSO2 to stop using StratosLive. But there's no > guarantee that we would be successful. Case in point: Apache CouchDB and > As long as I'm running WSO2 that would be successful. However my job is not tenured :-). I learnt two lessons from the Couchbase fiasco: > Thanks for your well-reasoned explanation. We will go ahead and change StratosLive as well .. it will take a bit of time but we will do it. (BTW the current StratosLive is not Stratos 2.0 (what we're donating) based.) > Hmm that idea was based on how Cloudera is distributing Hadoop: > > > > http://www.cloudera.com/content/cloudera/en/products/cdh.html > > > > Is that also incorrect then? IIRC they've been doing that for years and > > presumably ASF is aware of it? > > > > The ASF is aware of it, but I don't think we're happy with it. Shane will > have more thoughts on this. > I understand that but, using your own metric (would there be consumer confusion between Apache Stratos and WSO2 XXX), I would argue that there will be no consumer confusion as to whether what they're downloading is an Apache product or a WSO2 one. Anyway, we are not going to play games with ASF brands; that's not the way WSO2 does stuff. Lets see what Shane says as well. Sanjiva. -- Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ email: sanj...@wso2.com; phone: +94 11 763 9614; cell: +94 77 787 6880 | +1 650 265 8311 blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ Lean . Enterprise . Middleware
