On Mar 8, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Antony Blakey wrote:
On 08/03/2009, at 11:47 PM, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
Launching such service is a good idee, and I would say "bravo".
Indeed, a commercial culture around CouchDB is a good thing when
trying to sell this technology.
But I think this is unfair to use couchdb name as a company and using
the "couchdb.com" as website. Unfair for all other projects coming or
existing that (would) provide such service or any commercial service
based on couchdb.
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That said. I just would like to add i'm not against such service.
That's not the point. I like this idee and I hope it will work for
you. What I dislike, and I'm strongly against it, is that you use
couchdb name for **your** service. For me that mean i have to
reconsider the way I endorse couchdb in my projects and I feel bad. I
really hope you don't already make any legal administrative stuff
about it and that your are ok to change/think about another name.
This issue has had an immediate impact on my first deployed CouchDB
project.
To date I have had a 'Built with CouchDB' link on every page.
Unfortunately, having a company called CouchDB Ltd, at couchdb.com
turns that link into an advertisement for a competitor to our
consultancy and development business in this space - specifically,
the space defined by our use of CouchDB (albeit a branch version).
We feel this way because co-opting the name and domain name for a
consultancy business is a form of implicit endorsement, so we will
no longer be including such a link, nor promoting CouchDB. This will
be an ongoing problem, because simply mentioning the name advertises
a competitor. C'est la vie.
You should link to couchdb.apache.org, that's the official Apache
project website. The couchdb.org couchdb.net and couchdb.com redirects
are just convenience.
-Damien
