[JDEV] Jabber, the Name

[Powell, Jim (EER)]

OK, this has gotten to the point of the absurd.  

You really only have 2 choices here, let both the commercial and free
products be called Jabber, or do like sun did and keep the open source and
commercial names separate (Forte and NetBeans).  

When it comes right down to it Jabber.com owns the name, and will decide how
and when it will be used, the fact that they are allowing the Jabber
Foundation to exist tells me that they are going to be open to what the Open
Source community wants to do, but are not required to allow us to do
anything.  To be blunt about it, lets not irritate the hand that feeds us,
or we might starve.

My $.02.

Jim Powell
(ducking to avoid the incoming shrapnel)

-----Original Message-----
From: Flora Brunas [mailto:floraaquino at yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 11:35 PM
To: jdev at jabber.org
Subject: RE: [JDEV] Jabber, the Name


Michael Bauer wrote:
> We're going to work things out where
> the "non-commercial"
> open source community will be able to use Jabber
> freely, but in a way that
> helps the protect the quality of the brand.  

Why just non-commercial?

Jabber.com shouldn't be the only corporation able to
benefit from the word Jabber!  This totally goes
against the goal of becoming a standard IM protocol.

Let the Jabber Foundation control the name "Jabber"
for both commercial and non-commercial projects and
companies.  This is only fair.

Allowing non-commercial projects to use the name
"Jabber" while allowing only one corporation to use
it, and excluding all other corporations, is
completely absurd.  That's not a Community - it's a
Corporate Strategy.

Flora


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