Indeed. For sure, all the 'good' names are already taken. Pierre Smits
*ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote: > Le 05/01/15 12:48, Shawn McKinney a écrit : > > On 01/05/2015 05:13 AM, Emmanuel Lecharny wrote: > >> You will not get any help from the ASF when ir comes to pick a name... > As it is virtually impossible to check in all the regions if the name is > already taken : we simply don't have the money/time/expertise to do that. > > As I'm sure everyone here knows trademarks are specific to a product > area. The fact that there is a product called ACME and it references a > tire doesn't preclude someone else from using it for toothpaste. With that > in mind I believe google is our friend. If we have a name we like, i.e. > kirby, and the only hits we get are for vacuum cleaners, > http://www.kirby.com/ ;-), then the name is still ok to use. > > Not even sure. Just try to name your project Nike or Starbucks, you'll > soon get into trouble... > >
