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CodePlex Foundation becomes Outercurve Foundation (The H)
The H reports
that the CodePlex Foundation has changed its name to the Outercurve
Foundation. "Since its launch, the CodePlex Foundation has been
confused by some with Microsoft's CodePlex.com project hosting platform,
despite the fact that the former is a non-profit organisation dedicated to
promoting open source collaboration between corporations and the community
and the latter is a Microsoft-owned site for hosting open source
projects." LWN covered the launch of
the CodePlex Foundation in September 2009.
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CodePlex Foundation becomes Outercurve Foundation (The H) Posted Sep 29, 2010 0:37 UTC (Wed) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link]
Wow, what a surprise! Two supposedly different organizations with the same name causes confusion.
/sarcasm
CodePlex Foundation becomes Outercurve Foundation (The H) Posted Sep 29, 2010 3:56 UTC (Wed) by apetresc (guest, #70368) [Link]
I don't think the word "despite" means what the author of that article thinks it means. You use "A despite B" when B would normally imply not-A. The fact that these are both organizations with the same name and similar goals is *precisely why* people would be confused.
CodePlex Foundation becomes Outercurve Foundation (The H) Posted Sep 29, 2010 8:53 UTC (Wed) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]
I'd love to know why this happens. Whether its Sun naming everything "Java" or Microsoft putting .NET on everything from outreach programs to a virtual machine, it seems as though big corporations somehow fixate on a name and apply it to every new thing.
My first suspect is trademark lawyers. When I wrote and released software purely in my own time I would call it whatever I liked, and very rarely I would get lawyer letters from some outfit who felt this was confusing, and have to rename the program.
But when I released GPL'd software on company time, the trademark lawyers had to be consulted before we even made a tarball because of the minute chance that some other huge corporation would dislike part of the name. And as soon as they disliked our internal codename the objective seemed to become to find the blandest possible name, preferably one we'd already cleared for some other purpose.
CodePlex Foundation becomes Outercurve Foundation (The H) Posted Sep 30, 2010 1:34 UTC (Thu) by RCL (guest, #63264) [Link]
Conceptually it's similar to having namespaces in languages, I guess. You need to organize your products somehow and putting the underlying technology in the name kills two birds with one stone (first bird being awareness of the said technology).
CodePlex Foundation becomes Outercurve Foundation (The H) Posted Sep 29, 2010 22:24 UTC (Wed) by dmitrij.ledkov (subscriber, #63320) [Link]
Fast Forward to September 2011: The Outercurve Foundation, previously also known as CodePlex Foundation, becomes Outercurve Codeplex Foundation since the name used throughout 2010-2011 did not have enough association with Microsoft.
CodePlex Foundation becomes Outercurve Foundation (The H) Posted Sep 30, 2010 6:24 UTC (Thu) by Doogie (guest, #59626) [Link]
Does either organization do anything besides issue press releases?
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