On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote:
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It's very simple, Joerg, first to integrate wins.
WRONG: in the OSS world the first user os a name wins and the imagemagick name
is thus illegal.
Says who? And who keeps the record or registry?
Do you like to ignore that my compare is genric and thus correctly using
the name and that it is 20 years older than imagemagick?
"compare" as a word dates back to probably 1000BC when the latin language
developed. Its use in english is post-norman, though, being imported from
french, but even that makes the english word almost thousand years old.
What, except a) that I was tortured with Latin in school, and b) that I
can sound quite patronizing if I chose to, does that prove ?
Generic words can't be trademarked. That's why everyone can call their
stuff "Windows", Microsoft lost a corresponding lawsuit a few years ago.
You chose a simple english word, you can't claim exclusive rights to it.
A prefix/suffix, "schily_compare", or at least as you do it with the other
utilities that you wrote, "scompare", would come closer to trademark-able
terms, as Apple/Intel are demonstrating with the "iStuff".
For name collisions, there's always PATH to sort out your preference.
/usr/bin vs. /usr/ucb vs. /usr/xpg4/bin vs. /usr/xpg6/bin comes to mind.
The world isn't out there to get you. Really.
Btw, PSARC knows something like a "minority vote". You can leave a record
there saying you disagree with something, and state the reasons. Which is
even possible if you're not a voting member. It goes on record and allows
you righteousness later, "you should've listened see what happened".
Whether that's a useful thing to do is another question, but it's really
going too far now ...
FrankH.
Because if Sun does not rename the image magick program Sun verifies that
PSARC discussions are just to fool people but do not have useful resaults.
Remember Joerg, being listened to is NOT the same as getting your way.
It is just another chance to verify that there is collaboration on OpenSolaris
and not just ignorant domination from Sun.....
Do we have an OpenSolaris community or is this just a fake?
The real compare is 20 years older and I did _warn_ _before_ the name appeared
in /usr/bin. For this reason, this is an important bug in Solaris Express.
Jörg
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