On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 13:30 -0500, kevin granade wrote: > > It seems that most of the recent participants of this mailing list prefer > > notion as the name for the forking project. But there were other proposals > > like cation or nion. Should we do an "official" voting (maybe by just by > > replying to this email with +1 for this or for that) or is the name notion > > now considered a given? > > > > Hope that we get the ball rolling after this decision has been made...next > > will be choosing a project leader (i would vote for Timandahaf) / chief > > developer (I would vote for M Rawash here), but this should be done in > > another thread... > > > > -- > > Alexander Rink <a.r...@gmx.net> > > n > > From a trademark POV, all the suggested names suffer from the major > problem of incorporating the trademark in the name. (see AOL v GAIM) > I know in this situation it is relatively safe to assume the trademark > holder isn't hostile, but I would still think it would be very > desirable to have a name that doesn't technically infringe the > trademark.
well, yes, some of these of names do suffer from what you're describing here (i.e. ion-ng), but i don't think names like "notion" or "neon" can be mistaken for a trademark infringement (both are common nouns in the english language, which is not associated with ion(tm)) > Unfortunately I don't have much in the way of alternatives to offer, > I'm not particularly good with coming up with names. ThinWM? > TinyParticle? TilingMadeSimple? Quirk? (Told you I was terrible.) yes, you are :) > Tumov, I just wanted to express my heartfelt thanks for creating ion3 > and making it available. I've been an ion3 user for 3 years now, and > I don't plan on stopping anyttime soon. seconded (except for the "3 years" part, more like 3 months for me..) regards, M Rawash
