[Mageia-discuss] Are you aware that mageia.com is already registered...

[Diego Bello]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
>
> Le vendredi 08 octobre 2010 à 11:50 +0200, Stéphane Téletchéa a écrit :
>> Just to ensure we will not encompass the mandrake story again, check
>> http://www.mageia.com ...
>
> We had a quite long and complex research to find a name :
> https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-discuss/20100920/000315.html
>
> Then we indeed stumbled on the fact that the .com was used but this was
> not seen as a problem since there is a lot of precedent in free
> software :
>
> apache.com is not affiliated with apache.org
>  (.com registered before .org )
>
> ubuntu.com is not affiliated with ubuntu.org
>  (.org registered 2 years before .com )
>
> gnome.com is not affiliated with gnome.org
>  (.com 2 years before .org )
>
> python.com is not affiliated with python.org
>  (.com 1 year before .org)

You could have warned about python.com first, it's an "adults" site!
 Luckily I was able to close it really fast :D


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Diego Bello Carreño