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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Skype Replacement?
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Michał 'rysiek' Woźniak |
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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Skype Replacement? |
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Mon, 14 May 2012 13:03:41 +0200 |
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Dnia poniedziałek, 14 maja 2012 o 12:46:14 Alexey Eromenko napisał(a):
> I have one GREAT IDEA:
> Trademark enforcement !
Oh my, here we go. -_-'
> Once a good open-source Skype-like project is born, with central
> registry, and firewall bypass, it *should* use it's own trademark
> that defines that forks must re-name themselves.
> Call this project "The Unique".
>
> I.e. if a forker wants to change the code to point at a different
> central repository, he should be forced to change project name as
> well. (like FireFox -> Debian's IceWeasel trademark fork, due to
> inability to backport security patches to old versions of
> FireFox-proper.)
As you yourself called upon Firefox/IceWeasel issue, you should
already know why this is a *bad* idea.
> So all users whom get the original "The Unique" project, they all
> are guaranteed to use central registry, and this guarantee can be
> enforced by project trademark, rather than code licensing.
>
> In a similar way, Red Hat is protecting their brand, and CentOS
> cannot use Red Hat's trademark, but can use it's code.
I have a better idea: use primarily protocol names, instead of
application/project names. XMPP instead of Pidgin. E-Mail instead of
Thunderbird. See - this works! Diaspora instead of Joindiaspora.com.
SIP instead of Ekiga.
Now, we can have a (semi)central repository protocol for
federation/search, and that would just mean projects like Thunderbird
or Pidgin, or Ekiga would have to simply implement this protocol -
which would be treated as a "feature" instead of "infringement on
freedom of developers".
The best part is: all the above mentioned protocols use the
user@server scheme.
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Pozdrawiam
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak
Fundacja Wolnego i Otwartego Oprogramowania
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