On Mar 8, 2009, at 11:33 AM, Antony Blakey wrote:
>
> On 08/03/2009, at 11:47 PM, Benoit Chesneau wrote:
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>> Launching such service is a good idee, and I would say "bravo".
>
> Indeed, a commercial culture around CouchDB is a good thing when
> trying to sell this technology.
>
>> But I think this is unfair to use couchdb name as a company and using
>> the "couchdb.com" as website. Unfair for all other projects coming or
>> existing that (would) provide such service or any commercial service
>> based on couchdb.
>
> <snip>
>
>> That said. I just would like to add i'm not against such service.
>> That's not the point. I like this idee and I hope it will work for
>> you. What I dislike, and I'm strongly against it, is that you use
>> couchdb name for **your** service. For me that mean i have to
>> reconsider the way I endorse couchdb in my projects and I feel bad. I
>> really hope you don't already make any legal administrative stuff
>> about it and that your are ok to change/think about another name.
>
> This issue has had an immediate impact on my first deployed CouchDB
> project.
>
> To date I have had a 'Built with CouchDB' link on every page.
> Unfortunately, having a company called CouchDB Ltd, at couchdb.com
> turns that link into an advertisement for a competitor to our
> consultancy and development business in this space - specifically,
> the space defined by our use of CouchDB (albeit a branch version).
> We feel this way because co-opting the name and domain name for a
> consultancy business is a form of implicit endorsement, so we will
> no longer be including such a link, nor promoting CouchDB. This will
> be an ongoing problem, because simply mentioning the name advertises
> a competitor. C'est la vie.
You should link to couchdb.apache.org, that's the official Apache
project website. The couchdb.org couchdb.net and couchdb.com redirects
are just convenience.
-Damien
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