On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 06:46:51AM +0100, Donnacha wrote:
> even a baseless one, Adobe will certainly opt to press that button,
> especially as they can do so anonymously. allowing them, at very
> little financial and zero publicity cost, to inflict a slight set-back
> upon a rival.
Headline: 24pt: Red5 forced to change it's name to BARF
Open-source project Red5, a free and modifiable clone of
Adobe's Media Server has been threatened with legal action
over it's name and has agreed, under pressure, to change it's
name to BARF, an acronym standing for BARF Ain't Red Five.
A web-search this morning revealed that a search for "Red5"
still pointed to the newly named BARF page, and that the
project was still going as strong as ever.
Luke Hubbard, a lead developer on the project, said "It's a
shame we've had to change the name, but it's relly not
important, we continue to provide a free and open replacement
for Adobe's expensive and closed software, and our userbase
continues to grow apace"
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All publicity is good publicity. A legal story about Red5 having
to change it's name would mean more people notice the project,
not less. Adobe would be foolish to hope a forced name-change
would hurt the project rather than help it.
Adam............
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