Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> The name "bsh" was defined 25+ years go by "H. Berthold AG Berlin" and
> published with a UNIX clone that was distributed. The name and the program
> are
> in contiguous use since then.
>
No. "bsh" might have been in niche use, but it is not widely known by
such use today; it is much more widely known as the Java tool then
whatever shell was published 25 years ago.
One person who publishes something 25 years ago doesn't get to impede
forward progress, or hold other projects hostage.
This is all the more true since it was probably difficult or impossible
for the beanshell folks to learn that "bsh" was a conflicting name.
Since we don't have a "naming authority", we have to make the best
choices we can. If I were starting a new project, I'd agree, we should
choose a different name. But in this instance, the project is not
living in a vacuum, and your concerns, while noted, are overruled.
Can we now stop talking about this?
-- Garrett
