Since I have already responded to this thread (I have tried my best to stay away from this discussion, but William's email just got totally out of whack that I needed to send out the previous email), so now I may as well respond to other things here.
1) Ron's initial reply basically says that Grid Engine implementations should not use FUD against each other, and also not use other people's products (UniCloud, Univa Grid Engine) as the domain name unless the owner is Univa (which is fair, what's the point of a 3rd party owning "univagridengine.com"?? http://gridengine.org/pipermail/users/2012-January/002402.html 2) Sun did not trademark "Grid Engine", so everyone can use the name Grid Engine. There are restrictions (from SISSL) on using "Grid Engine" as the name of the software, however. 3) And related to Univa buying the "Open Grid Scheduler" in Google search - "Open Grid Scheduler" is also not trademarked, so in theory everyone can use it. But of course if one is not shipping "Open Grid Scheduler" but buying those Adwords from Google, then I personally think that it is a bit misleading. However, it is already a huge step from the "Open Grid Scheduler - Download and Try - Built by Experts" Ad placed by Univa 6 months ago. And finally, thanks Chris for not selling gridengine.org. We started telling people to subscribe to this list since late last year on the Open Grid Scheduler homepage, and hopefully gridengine.org will not be sold in the foreseeable future. Rayson On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Chris Dagdigian <d...@sonsorol.org> wrote: > > >> First they closed the >> source code, now they are taking over the 'Grid Engine' name. What will >> they do next?? > > my $.02 ... > > > Mark if you wanna see a textbook example of infantile FUD in action all you > need to do is read your own blog at http://gridenginetruth.blogspot.com/ > > gridengine.com has been owned by a domain speculator or some other > value-less operator since at least 2005 when I bought the gridengine.info > and gridengine.org domains. Just like gridengine.net is being used right now > in fact. > > gridengine.com has *never* been used for anything GE related and a quick > visit to archive.org will show that it's basically hosted a domain parking > page for years. > > And now ... it redirects ... to univa.com ... the company that hired a bunch > of the GE development team ... The company that sells and supports a GE > variant ... the company with a product called ... (drumroll) ... "Grid > Engine". > > FUD != "company purchasing a domain name from a speculator that accurately > describes the product they are developing and selling" > > Wait until someone does a google search for "open grid scheduler" and > notices that Univa might have bought placement around those keywords. That's > totally gonna blow some minds. Maybe I should get in front of that outrage > train and label it UltraMegaUberFUD :) > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users@gridengine.org > https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@gridengine.org https://gridengine.org/mailman/listinfo/users
