On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 05:39:24AM +0530, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 5:02 AM, Marvin Humphrey > <mar...@rectangular.com>wrote: > > > > == Known Risks == > > > Stratos has largely been developed by sponsored developers employed at > > > a single organization - WSO2. Seeking a broader community of > > > contributors is a top goal of contributing Stratos to Apache. > > > WSO2 plans to continue to offer services and commercial support > > > packages for Stratos, so there is a financial incentive to broaden > > > Stratos’ appeal. This may provide the misinterpretation that Stratos > > > remains merely a WSO2 technology. However, WSO2’s main business > > > strategy is to build and support higher level PaaS offerings > > > (including the WSO2 middleware stack) on top of a common PaaS > > > framework, as provided by Stratos. This includes a WSO2 StratosLive > > > option which is a public PaaS based on WSO2 Stratos. > > > > Kudos for the honest self-analysis. > > > > Thanks :-). > > I wonder whether Apache Brand Management would cry foul on a trademark like > > "StratosLive" if such a product were to appear later because of the > > "confusingly similar name" guideline. We've seen project founders leave > > and > > compete with ASF products while using confusingly similar names before, > > e.g. > > CouchBase. > > > > Yeah we also thought about that .. if StratosLive is too close to home we > can certainly change it. Bit painful but not impossible.
Alternatively, if WS02 wanted to keep using the "Stratos" term, the podling (to be) could re-brand the project itself to something other than "Stratos". --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
