MapServer and Foundation naming

[Daniel Morissette]

P Kishor wrote:
> 
> It is still not clear what exactly will Autodesk's codebase contribute
> to the MapServer codebase, if anything at all. Will it, won't it? Will
> it forever be a separate but equal product? Why does it even need the
> MapServer foundation?
> 

I have tried to explain the positioning of each project/product and of 
the foundation in the following email, that should address many of hte 
questions:

http://lists.mapserverfoundation.org/pipermail/discuss/2005-November/000017.html

P.S. Please don't jump on the online forum vs mailing list question at 
the beginning of the email, we've beaten this one to death before and we 
already know our respective positions on that.  :)

> 
> but what good does it do to MapServer? If those 5000 are going to go
> to the msfoundation website, see a cheetah and an enterprise, they are
> going to choose the latter. If that doesn't work for them, they are
> never going to come back, unless they are unlucky to be forced to use
> the large, unwieldy product.
> 

I think it's clear that the Enterprise bit hurts. But how do we move 
forward? I still think that sharing the MapServer name sounds like a 
good idea.

Let's say we get them to change Enterprise to something else, i.e. 
"MapServer <some_animal>" and "MapServer Cheetah" (change the animal 
names to anything as long as it's nice distinctive names)... the idea I 
think is to have something similar to Mozilla Firefox vs Mozilla 
Thunderbird, do you (not just you, but the community as a whole) still 
see a problem with something like that?

Daniel
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