>
> 'The primary manifestation of this benefit is having solid legal
> ground to defend against intellectual property and other claims.'
>
> And the Habari blogging platform is so important,, so significant and
> so massive that we anticipate a lot of legal claims and corporate law
> suits that could somehow threaten the project's existence.
>
> Just for the record, how many law suits have been files against the
> habari project thus far ?

Just for the record, how many law suits do you think it would take  
before you lost your savings? One would do it for me.

Perhaps you misunderstand how law suits work. They don't need to be  
justified, or even sane. Anybody can file a legal claim about any  
product, at any time, claiming that it caused loss of income, or gave  
them heartburn.

It's not about threatening the project's existence. It's about  
personal liability for those claims. At the moment, we, the  
committers, are personally liable for those claims.

Yeah, this happens.

>
> 'If accepted into incubation, Habari shall become Apache Habari. '
>
> Dislike. Strongly dislike.

Meh. Nobody cares about this. Did you see the article about Hadoop in  
the Washington Post last month? A few people on the Public Relations  
Committee got their panties in a wad about "it should be Apache  
Hadoop." Everyone else told them to get a life, and got back to things  
that matter.

So, sure, officially, it would be "Apache Habari", much like  
"Microsoft Excel" or "Adobe Acrobat", but everyone will continue to  
refer to the product however they choose to, and it's really not a big  
deal. Seems a very minor thing to get uptight about.

--
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
H. L. Mencken


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