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new naming rule

Posted May 19, 2006 18:30 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: Harmonizing by rfunk
Parent article: Harmony project to get a Swing/AWT implementation

When naming a new FOSS project, always pick a name for which projectname.org is available. Then we won't have naming conflicts.

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new naming rule

Posted May 19, 2006 18:36 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Good idea. But .org is pretty crowded with other stuff too....
Maybe we should petition ICANN for a new .foss TLD. Hey, the museums get
a TLD, why not us?

new naming rule

Posted May 21, 2006 5:46 UTC (Sun) by cthart (guest, #4457) [Link]

Except RS will jump in clamouring for .fs instead of .foss

:-)