The most valuable property of Open Contrail is that it comes from the same
code base as commercial Contrail.

Renaming it means to many customers a divorce from the original principle.

//RR

On Dec 1, 2017 05:12, "Harshad Nakil" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Forcing OpenContrail to give up identity that got us here since last five
> years is not right.
> It is also being ungrateful to creativity.
>
> I never understood the insistence to be part of LF.
>
>
> Regards
> -Harshad
>
>
> On Nov 30, 2017, at 6:15 PM, Gregory Elkinbard <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> I will ask the LF folks,
>
> But please note that RedHat does not actually own, or tried to own Linux
> as a trademark.
>
> RedHat site seems to claims that Enterprise Linux is a registered
> trademark it is actually not.
>
>
>
> Enterprise Linux was filed and abandoned in 2008 by some magazine, RedHat
> filed Enterprise Linux Advanced Platform which also
>
> was abandoned in 2008 and trademark was never granted according to US
>
>
>
> http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4809:yjpkzi.2.3
>
> http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4809:yjpkzi.2.1
>
>
>
> So RedHat is using Linux in the product name without owning the trademark.
>
> They also should not have a registration mark against Enterprise Linux on
> their site as It is not a USA registered trademark.
>
>
>
> We do need to retain Contrail as trademark not just use it in the product
> name.
>
>
>
> Both internal lawyers and LF lawyers had a fit. Trust me I did not give up
> this fight easily.
>
>
>
> Greg
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From: *Dev <[email protected]> on behalf of Sachin
> Bansal <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Thursday, November 30, 2017 at 5:38 PM
> *To: *Harshad Nakil <[email protected]>
> *Cc: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> *Subject: *Re: [opencontrail-dev] We need a new name
>
>
>
> +1
>
>
>
> I also see double standards here. They have no problem with Redhat selling
> a product with ‘Linux’ in its name.
>
>
>
> Sachin
>
>
>
> On Nov 30, 2017, at 5:21 PM, Harshad Nakil <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> +1
>
>
>
> On Nov 30, 2017, at 5:18 PM, Ashish Ranjan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> I would rather go to Apache foundation or somewhere else if Linux
> foundation has issues with ‘contrail’. There is no way we should try to
> rename this and create confusion (and dilute brand).
>
>
>
> I am not an expert but I see there are many open source projects (like
> Docker, Kafka) with commercial version.
>
>
>
> Ashish
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> *From:* Dev <[email protected]> on behalf of Nachi Ueno <
> [email protected]>
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 30, 2017 3:43:51 PM
> *To:* Randy Bias; Robert Raszuk
> *Cc:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [opencontrail-dev] We need a new name
>
>
>
> then how about OpenSurströmming? ( I'm just kidding :) )
>
> BTW, "Contrail" is "hikoki-gumo" or "kousekiun" in Japanese.
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Randy Bias
> Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 2:58:59 PM
> To: Robert Raszuk
> Cc: Gregory Elkinbard; Nachi Ueno; Gasparakis, Joseph; EXT -
> [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [opencontrail-dev] We need a new name
>
> Yeah. Not a big fan of natto. Even with an egg on it.
>
>
> --Randy
>
>
> *** Sent from mobile, pls forgive tpyoes ***
>
> On Nov 30, 2017, at 14:21, Robert Raszuk <[email protected]<mailto:
> [email protected] <[email protected]>>> wrote:
>
> Hey Nachi,
>
> > BTW how about natto? this food seems like a network :P
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natt%C5%8D<https://
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> >
>
> Do you really want to discourage people from using it :)))  ?
>
> Cheers,
> R,
>
>
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