yeah it is unfortunate, the brand is powerful. (I work with Kohsuke @ cloudbees).
Who knows if it will really take off, it is interesting to watch. The brand pull is powerful. If Jenkins takes off and hudson withers - shows power of community against oracle. Cool. If Hudson powers on, and everyone ends up using that again, who knows what it mean to users (assuming it stays open source, and things don't creep in as oracle add-ons). What it does mean for open source, is that who owns "the brand" (ie name trademarks etc) is kind of important. At least in the short term of a project. It has made me think that open source projects where the name is owned by a non foundation as "risky" (ie what if that name ends up in the hands of someone.. you know... like hank scorpio or dr evil). Projects which have TM owned by a foundation (eg tomcat - apache, jetty - eclipse, for example) are much safer (at least in a free community sense). Interesting to watch. On Feb 2, 2:13 am, Morten A-Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason van Zyl's response to the Hudson/Jenkins > debacle:https://gist.github.com/805941 > > Please! Won't somebody please think of the children!!! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
