Re: Name of the fork / Voting

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 13:30 -0500, kevin granade wrote:
> > It seems that most of the recent participants of this mailing list prefer notion as the name for the forking project. But there were other proposals like cation or nion. Should we do an "official" voting (maybe by just by replying to this email with +1 for this or for that) or is the name notion now considered a given?
> >
> > Hope that we get the ball rolling after this decision has been made...next will be choosing a project leader (i would vote for Timandahaf) / chief developer (I would vote for M Rawash here), but this should be done in another thread...
> >
> > --
> > Alexander Rink <[email protected]>
> > n
> 
> From a trademark POV, all the suggested names suffer from the major
> problem of incorporating the trademark in the name.  (see AOL v GAIM)
> I know in this situation it is relatively safe to assume the trademark
> holder isn't hostile, but I would still think it would be very
> desirable to have a name that doesn't technically infringe the
> trademark.

well, yes, some of these of names do suffer from what you're describing
here (i.e. ion-ng), but i don't think names like "notion" or "neon" can
be mistaken for a trademark infringement (both are common nouns in the
english language, which is not associated with ion(tm))

> Unfortunately I don't have much in the way of alternatives to offer,
> I'm not particularly good with coming up with names. ThinWM?
> TinyParticle? TilingMadeSimple? Quirk? (Told you I was terrible.)

yes, you are :)

> Tumov, I just wanted to express my heartfelt thanks for creating ion3
> and making it available.  I've been an ion3 user for 3 years now, and
> I don't plan on stopping anyttime soon.

seconded (except for the "3 years" part, more like 3 months for me..)

regards,
M Rawash