On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Michael Scherer <[email protected]> wrote: > > Le vendredi 08 octobre 2010 à 11:50 +0200, Stéphane Téletchéa a écrit : >> Just to ensure we will not encompass the mandrake story again, check >> http://www.mageia.com ... > > We had a quite long and complex research to find a name : > https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20100920/000315.html > > Then we indeed stumbled on the fact that the .com was used but this was > not seen as a problem since there is a lot of precedent in free > software : > > apache.com is not affiliated with apache.org > (.com registered before .org ) > > ubuntu.com is not affiliated with ubuntu.org > (.org registered 2 years before .com ) > > gnome.com is not affiliated with gnome.org > (.com 2 years before .org ) > > python.com is not affiliated with python.org > (.com 1 year before .org)
You could have warned about python.com first, it's an "adults" site! Luckily I was able to close it really fast :D -- Diego Bello Carreño
