On Jun 12, 2013, at 7:32 PM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Ross Gardler > <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: >> It's with great pleasure that I invite the IPMC to review a new >> proposal [1] for the Apache Incubator. Please let us know if you have >> any questions or comments - as you will see there are plenty of people >> on the initial commit list ready and willing to answer your questions. > > It is certainly a large group and a thoroughly prepared proposal with a lot of > resources behind it. > >> == Known Risks == >> Stratos has largely been developed by sponsored developers employed at >> a single organization - WSO2. Seeking a broader community of >> contributors is a top goal of contributing Stratos to Apache. >> WSO2 plans to continue to offer services and commercial support >> packages for Stratos, so there is a financial incentive to broaden >> Stratos’ appeal. This may provide the misinterpretation that Stratos >> remains merely a WSO2 technology. However, WSO2’s main business >> strategy is to build and support higher level PaaS offerings >> (including the WSO2 middleware stack) on top of a common PaaS >> framework, as provided by Stratos. This includes a WSO2 StratosLive >> option which is a public PaaS based on WSO2 Stratos. > > Kudos for the honest self-analysis. > > I wonder whether Apache Brand Management would cry foul on a trademark like > "StratosLive" if such a product were to appear later because of the > "confusingly similar name" guideline. We've seen project founders leave and > compete with ASF products while using confusingly similar names before, e.g. > CouchBase. > I agree. I would assume that "Stratos" would become a trademark of the ASF and, as such, WSO2's use of "StratosLive" as a product name would not be allowed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
