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What should we do about Barrabas's current request?
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @06:40PM
I just wanted to throw in my two cents here... I never registered on /. or really posted comments at all. I've always been an idle lurker.
I came on board and determined the Blue Host system would not work. I also started early development on a separate web system in case NCommander was unsuccessful getting slashcode to work.
I suggested the Soylent News name as a bit of a joke and a reference and to my surprise it was chosen. If the community wants a different name, it wouldn't hurt me one bit.
But to the meat of things...
We should do what is necessesary to fully rid ourselves of Barrabas as an organization and community.
This means we should pick a new name, register the appropriate domain name under our own account, and ensure any services or sites are ran from an account in our complete control.
We should also take steps to prevent another person from holding the domain hostage as well. Perhaps by giving access to the registrar to multiple trusted people.
I don't feel we should pay a dime to Barrabas for any of the charges. In my personal view, he kindly donated (without the community asking) money to help start. Whether we succeeded or failed, that money is gone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 10 2014, @06:50PM
Glad to hear you're open to it, AC. Personally I don't like the name because of its obvious cannibalistic interpretation. Someone else pointed out it's also potentially endorsing/conflicting with the food product.
Name aside, I'd almost like to see it dash under the Mozilla or Apache or FSF umbrella as a shortcut to community ownership, but of course that limits criticism of whatever parent organization is chosen. Really a whole not-for-profit is called for, but that takes money and effort too.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by umafuckitt on Monday March 10 2014, @07:07PM
I don't feel we should pay a dime to Barrabas for any of the charges. In my personal view, he kindly donated (without the community asking) money to help start. Whether we succeeded or failed, that money is gone.
Exactly. He took a business gamble. He was dreaming big at first: saying that he imagined SN would become a major news aggregator. He'd already been prepared to sink 10k into this. He's bailed in the first month and is in far less than 10k. IMO he should take the hit and leave it be. We choose a name because the current one doesn't work. Story closed. Leave the dirty laundry off the front page and polls.
(Score: 2) by unitron on Tuesday March 11 2014, @01:22AM
If you thought up the name, then technically aren't you the holder of the copyright to it?
Did you agree to "donating" it in a situation where someone else could sell it?
something something Slashcott something something Beta something something
(Score: 1) by Reziac on Tuesday March 11 2014, @03:07AM
You can't copyright a name. However, you can trademark it. But on the expenses wiki, I don't see where anyone has coughed up the substantial fee to file for trademark protection. Nor do I see "SoylentNews, a trademark of..." anywhere in evidence.
Personally, I like the name, and appreciate the pun (tho it takes on new meaning today).
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.