Re: [opencontrail-dev] Opinion Please: Help Choose OpenContrail's New Name

Thank you Aniket, OpenKontrail sounds great. Regards, Masood From: Dev [mailto:dev-boun...@lists.opencontrail.org] On Behalf Of Aniket Daptari Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 11:40 PM To: Randy Bias Cc: annou...@lists.opencontrail.org; dev@lists.opencontrail.org Subject:

Re: [opencontrail-dev] Opinion Please: Help Choose OpenContrail's New Name

And therefore, with that example (Xen v/s Xen Project) in front of us, if the LF project can absolutely NOT be named OpenContrail or "OpenContrail Project", then why not call it "OpenKontrail Project" or something really close to the original name? Thanks, Aniket On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 11:38

Re: [opencontrail-dev] [Announce] Opinion Please: Help Choose OpenContrail's New Name

Hi, Thanks for the input. Just a reminder that I gave y’all a heads up on this in early December and we discussed it in detail at the governance summit at Kubecon as well. There should be zero surprised to anyone that we can’t proceed with OpenContrail. As a

Re: [opencontrail-dev] Opinion Please: Help Choose OpenContrail's New Name

If trademarks were solely about finding something that no one else is using it would make what is already a tremendously difficult exercise basically impossible. We would all be making up nonsense words in order to get something no one else used. Trademarks infringement is defined as

Re: [opencontrail-dev] [Announce] Opinion Please: Help Choose OpenContrail's New Name

We have tried to push the Contrail issue all the way up to C-level at Juniper. Contrail represents a whole group of products of which OpenContrail/Contrail Networking is just a part. They spent too much money and time marketing the name, they will not abandon it. This like going to Cisco and

Re: [opencontrail-dev] [Announce] Opinion Please: Help Choose OpenContrail's New Name

The Linux Foundation refuses to accept the OpenContrail trademark if they can’t also have the Contrail trademark. So, although you feel that they are not similar, we don’t have any leverage to override LF’s decision. Unless you really think we should abandon the move to LF (please don’t) and go

Re: [opencontrail-dev] Opinion Please: Help Choose OpenContrail's New Name

Hi Greg, I'm concerned a bit about Tesserax being too close to Tesseract, which is a well-known open-source OCR (and also a registered trademark owned by someone else). Sounds very similar to Firebird (RDBMS) vs Firebird (now Firefox) issue of the early 2000s. My two cents, Valentine On

Re: [opencontrail-dev] [Announce] Opinion Please: Help Choose OpenContrail's New Name

Hi Edgar, > In my opinion, these three names sound awful. Completely agree ! Terrible. Why not something very easy like CFabric ? (Oh no it starts with bad letter "c" ;-). > Maybe we could negotiate with Juniper ... Exactly proposed the same few months back (when this all started to surface).