-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri March 6 2009 2:39:42 pm Henry E Schaffer wrote: > I share in Josh's puzzlement. Since we don't have and never have had > a VCL Department, do we need to start one and then close it down? > > What we have is software which we call "VCL", and this is reflected in > the documentation and the URL to use our production system (vcl.ncsu.edu). > > At NC State we use a piece of software which we call "Apache HTTP > Server". This name is the same as the ASF project. We're not the only > organization which does this. Ditto for other suftware, e.g. Tomcat. > > So I don't understand the following quoted material is consistent with > our situation. > > > > >>> "There must be a name for the project at ASF that isn't used > > > >>> anywhere else in > > > >>> the world for any similar project, > > since we don't (now) have any VCL project except for the ASF one. > > > > >>> and anyone who downloads and > > > >>> installs said > > > >>> project isn't allowed to use the ASF name in any way." > > If "ASF name" means the name of our project at ASF, then for the other > projects, how can people say they are running Apache HTTP Server or > Tomcat? > > If "ASF name" means "the name of the Foundation" then there is the > same conflict when people say they are running Apache HTTP Server or > Tomcat. > > Am I missing something? > > --henry schaffer
I just wanted to point out that the part Henry quoted above that had quotes around it were my words which were my interpretation of Alan's - not his directly. Josh - -- - ------------------------------- Josh Thompson Systems Programmer Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) North Carolina State University josh_thomp...@ncsu.edu 919-515-5323 my GPG/PGP key can be found at www.keyserver.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJsX30V/LQcNdtPQMRAubJAJ9+LHCIT5/ftKA2DvfY/eD9hM7xxgCff7e5 1QI9NesWrnALM5dMxNK5728= =H04C -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
