Poll: MapServer and Autodesk

[Gary Lang]

Ed,

I covered our thoughts about the naming weeks ago. I just want to make sure that the community understands the ramifications of following their wishes. I am not sure it does because I never gave it a chance to by explaining the open letter signers' motivation for the idea in the first place.

As to your c) comment, I don't get it. Sorry for being dense, but how does your approach differ substantively from b) in the poll question other than calling the foundation WMF  (which means Windows Meta File in the larger software world, BTW)? 

The point behind b) is simply that the foundation needs a different name than MapServer Foundation if we (Autodesk) are going to put our product into it. I can't imagine Tom Burke signing over MapServer to a "MapGuide Foundation". The motivation behind all this should be pretty plain.

Gary

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Subject:	Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Poll: MapServer and Autodesk
Gary -
 
You seem to be deliberately overlooking the rather obvious solution of removing the word "MapServer" from the Foundation's name.  If one were to steal an idea from Tyler's editors and call it the "Web Mapping Foundation", then many of the issues you describe below would go away, wouldn't they?  The "WMF MapServer" and "WMF MapGuide" products are both members of the WMF product family as much as a MapServer Enterprise and MapServer Cheetah are members of the MapServer product family, aren't they?  I'm not trying to lobby for that particular name, but rather to point out another route to a solution.
 
I guess that means I'd vote for (c).
 
     - Ed

Ed McNierney

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