Re: opie trademark

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 04:01:03AM +1000, Lorn Potter wrote:
> On Thursday 31 May 2007 02:40, Benjamin Long wrote:
> > This infighting and bickering is pointless.
> > Right now, the Opie project seems just about dead. If it's not dead already
> > this disunity with surely kill it.
> > If something can be done to revive the project by bringing it up to date,
> > hence not letting all the development time that went into Opie go to waste,
> > I say it's worth it. 
> 
> Updating Opie to use Qtopia core 4 would take about 10,000 man hours. I 
> personally saw the process that Troltlech took to do it. It was not pretty. 
> You basically have to rewrite everything, including starting the designer .ui 
> files sfrom scratch.
> 
> The Opie developers decided this was futile and pointless, and why not use the 
> code that Trolltech generates for the next Opie. That saves opie developers 
> from a fairly futile and frustrating effort.

Sure, this makes technical sense. It does not mean that you have the
permission of the Opie community that you can re-use the name. And if
you are starting from scratch that you even should re-use the name. It
just plain isn't your name. I don't say it is mine. But I don't see you
owning it.

> > As for why this work wasn't done on the hh.org 
> > servers, I have no idea, and I really don't care. 
> 
> Many reasons. For one, that my email to admins of handhelds.org requesting to 
> start a new cvs tree went unanswered. For another, over the years, it has 
> been a PINA to get new developers setup for write access to the cvs, and 
> often taking weeks to do so and depended on the grace of handhelds.org admins 
> being available and responsive.

I can appreciated this issue. The problem is not that you choose to have
your new project hosted elsewhere. The problem is that you want to
re-use names w/out the permission of the community. I don't pretend
to speak for that community. I do speak for myself and do consider
myself a part of that community. And I say your use of the name is
confusing. Your choice of project hosting sites is a concern since it is
well known that the relationship between people at that site and people
at handhelds.org are having public problems.

E

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