April 07, 2004

XULUX and XULU ??

I founded a project a couple of years ago called XULUX (still under development, so to say, probably time for some release).
Just came across an announcement through the xul-announce mailinglist that a new project was there called XULU.
Can it get any more original than that ? Yes it can. The image actually just says XULUX.
Especially the TM makes me hurl.
I think I am going to release XULUX Studio this year :)
See Redback Systems for the originality award. A look at the image clearly show XULUX.
A simple search on the net (just like I did before I named the project XULUX) should have warned them that there is already something in the same area with the same name.
Hope they don't spoil the brand XULUX, since I am preventing to spoil the "brand" by still not having an official release of XULUX :)
Hope they will rethink there name, but as most companies I guess this will be something that will never happen.
Don't what a TM means in the UK, but I hope it is just to say : I want to trade under that name and it doesn't imply owner ship of the name.
At least it is open source..

Posted by mvdb at April 7, 2004 12:30 AM
Comments
It's not just the name of the project, check out the name of the company and the logo here (http://www.redback.com/) Posted by: anonymous on April 7, 2004 06:42 AM
FYI http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=4576 :) I couldn't even subscribe under my last name since it contained spaces :( Posted by: Martin on April 13, 2004 12:37 PM
Thanx for the info Robert :) I'll see if I can blog more often... Posted by: Martin on April 13, 2004 12:59 PM
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