[haiku-development] Re: Selecting a non-trademarked name for the Haiku platform
- From: "Adrien Destugues" <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:43:48 +0000
> If they choose to leave their uname output consistent with Haiku
> while
> breaking compatibility and changing all other aspects of the OS to
> read "Not Haiku" - then they have failed their users and developers -
> not us.
>
> Look at it this way: Does it really hurt Haiku's image if some OS
> that
> clearly isn't Haiku (all branding removed) pretends to be Haiku and
> fails?
If there are dozen of them, and they all do the same (lets say, add
libm), and they get actually more users than us, there is a risk of
takeover of the Haiku uname. Preventing its use in 3rd-party versions
only (and keeping it for the Haiku_Compatibles only) would avoid that,
as people breaking compatibility would have to change the name.
Changing the uname for everyone would not fix it, and could actually
make the situation worse if the new uname isn't trademarked (who would
say 'it's ours', then ?)
--
Adrien.
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