Steve, perhaps you could explain for me why they would wish to change one already confusing and contested moniker for another...
While I have not followed it closely, and I certainly have no issue with any of the work the ?formerly? openpbx (the one that is not the voicetronix openpbx) project does, I fail to see how it would further serve their purpose to be confused instead with GNU Telephony, our PBX work, etc. I only very recently heard about this, but I was hoping you could explain this to me and how this could happen. We are quite happy working in freedom on free telephony software, services, and component libraries in GNU Telephony, many of which are maintained as official GNU packages. While we certainly do not wish to involve ourselves in other projects uninvited, when some group chooses or appears to confusingly represent themselves as us, I feel I must respond to that in some manner. At the very least, it would seem to me to be simple common courtesy to have asked how we might feel about it first. David Sugar GNU Telephony Steve Underwood wrote: > Ariel Monaco wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "OpenPBX.org Developers Mailing List" <[email protected]>; >> "OpenPBX.org Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion" >> <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 7:01 AM >> Subject: [Openpbx-dev] more names >> >> >> >>> hi all >>> >>> after discussing the name suggestion 'gnupbx' on IRC, it was noted, >>> correctly, that this should not be regarded an option, since openpbx >>> is not part of FSF. It would be like naming the project AsteriskPBX >>> or ApachePBX. >>> >> What do we need to be part of the FSF? Is this really relevant? >> > Highly relevant. Apart from any legal issues, like trademarks, its > damned rude to just try to associate what you do with something > successful, by choosing a related name. > > Secondly, if would want to put PBX in the name you are very myopic. > > So gnupbx is composed of two parts, neither of which is a good match for > what we want. >> >>> I suggest we drop that name and let the voting go on with the other >>> candidates >>> >> Why drop a name people is voting? >> > They may be voting, but are they thinking? I think too many of those > voting have no stake in choosing a good name. They are just drive by > pollers. > > Talking to other serious contributors, we'll just walk away if something > as poorly considered as gnupbx is chosen. Its that simple. > > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Openpbx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openpbx.org/mailman/listinfo/openpbx-dev
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