We forgot to take into account the August long weekend and as a result
haven't had much community participation in the voting portion of the
naming competition so far.
As a result we've decided to take the 5 top choices from the first
round:
BOPOS
POSeidon
POSper
ProPOSe
Raya POS
And jump ahead to the third round where everybody (developers and
community members) will get 1 vote. This third round of voting will
occur on Tuesday August 7th.
For the final round we'll take the top 2-3 (depending on how close the
numbers are) choices from the third round and hold another round of
voting for those. Even if a single name gets a majority in the third
round there will be a final round to allow people who haven't voted yet
to have a say. We'll then tabulate the results and announce them on
August 10th.
thank you
The devel team
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I think we're in the clear as neither program really has anything to do with POS systems. As well Poseidon is clearly a pre-existing word. However there's also some arbitrary association issues and the Poseidon company also sells eclipse plug-ins which indicates they associate somewhat with the open source community. At the end of the day it really depends on whether they're lawsuit happy, even if we are in the clear they may just decide to sue anyways (maybe they'll be unhappy if we start hurting them in google rankings).
I do think the probability of a dispute coming is very low but I was already about 50-50 between the names so this issue gives POSper the edge for me and thus I'm going to vote for POSper.
One thing I'm curious about is the pronunciation of POSper, I've been pronounciating it with a soft O (as in prOsper) though it could also be conceivably be pronounced as a hard O as in pOsition.
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The third round of voting in completed and these are the results:
POSper: 3 votes
OSPOS: 2 votes
POSeidon: 1 vote
These three choices will be the choices for the final round. Note that so people don't have to vote again votes from the third round will still be counted in the final round. However, if you wish to change your vote you may do so. I think it should be noted that OSPOS is a very risky choice since there's already a POS system with that uses the same acronym Open Systems Point of Sale (http://www.futurenet.com.au/hardware/hardware.html) and we risk putting ourselves in the same trademark situation that forced TinaPOS to change its name.
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I want to change my vote, sorry god of sea but.... My vote goes for POSper I'm starting to like it, but it would sound much better if called PrOSper but in that case what's the r supposed to mean? Anyway I'm with POSper.
One last thing, In case OSPos win we can get into really serious legal issues, when I told Craig I was gonna support his proposal I didn't had into account the existence of Open System POS, anyway the name doesn't seem to be trademarked, in the case OSPos is the chosen one we will have to get in touch with those guys and see if there's any legal issue with it.
Manuel
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"My vote goes for POSper I'm starting to like it, but it would sound much better if called PrOSper but in that case what's the r supposed to mean? Anyway I'm with POSper."
Part of the reason I like POSper is because the only google hits are typos so it's pretty easy to ensure that we aren't going to hit any trademark issues :)
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We forgot to take into account the August long weekend and as a result
haven't had much community participation in the voting portion of the
naming competition so far.
As a result we've decided to take the 5 top choices from the first
round:
BOPOS
POSeidon
POSper
ProPOSe
Raya POS
And jump ahead to the third round where everybody (developers and
community members) will get 1 vote. This third round of voting will
occur on Tuesday August 7th.
For the final round we'll take the top 2-3 (depending on how close the
numbers are) choices from the third round and hold another round of
voting for those. Even if a single name gets a majority in the third
round there will be a final round to allow people who haven't voted yet
to have a say. We'll then tabulate the results and announce them on
August 10th.
thank you
The devel team
There's a last minute addition: OSPos is one of the names you can choose.
My vote goes for POSeidon a really cool name :D
I want to vote for OSPOS
My vote : POSper
-Jamie
My two favourites are POSeidon and POSper. With POSper I've done a fairly extensive google search and am pretty sure that it's a unique name. With POSeidon there are two possible matches http://www.bestsoftware4download.com/download/t-free-poseidon-media-converter-download-jnwenpis.html (some media converter thing) and http://www.gentleware.com/products.html (a UML converter)
I think we're in the clear as neither program really has anything to do with POS systems. As well Poseidon is clearly a pre-existing word. However there's also some arbitrary association issues and the Poseidon company also sells eclipse plug-ins which indicates they associate somewhat with the open source community. At the end of the day it really depends on whether they're lawsuit happy, even if we are in the clear they may just decide to sue anyways (maybe they'll be unhappy if we start hurting them in google rankings).
I do think the probability of a dispute coming is very low but I was already about 50-50 between the names so this issue gives POSper the edge for me and thus I'm going to vote for POSper.
One thing I'm curious about is the pronunciation of POSper, I've been pronounciating it with a soft O (as in prOsper) though it could also be conceivably be pronounced as a hard O as in pOsition.
Mi voto es para POSper
Ok gracias, lo traduzco para quienes no hablan inglés.
He says he's vote goes for POSper
Partial voting is:
POSper +3
POSeidon +1
OSPos +1
I know I'm late, but but if my vote will count, I'd definitely choose OSPos!
Thank!
Markus
The third round of voting in completed and these are the results:
POSper: 3 votes
OSPOS: 2 votes
POSeidon: 1 vote
These three choices will be the choices for the final round. Note that so people don't have to vote again votes from the third round will still be counted in the final round. However, if you wish to change your vote you may do so. I think it should be noted that OSPOS is a very risky choice since there's already a POS system with that uses the same acronym Open Systems Point of Sale (http://www.futurenet.com.au/hardware/hardware.html) and we risk putting ourselves in the same trademark situation that forced TinaPOS to change its name.
I want to change my vote, sorry god of sea but.... My vote goes for POSper I'm starting to like it, but it would sound much better if called PrOSper but in that case what's the r supposed to mean? Anyway I'm with POSper.
One last thing, In case OSPos win we can get into really serious legal issues, when I told Craig I was gonna support his proposal I didn't had into account the existence of Open System POS, anyway the name doesn't seem to be trademarked, in the case OSPos is the chosen one we will have to get in touch with those guys and see if there's any legal issue with it.
Manuel
"My vote goes for POSper I'm starting to like it, but it would sound much better if called PrOSper but in that case what's the r supposed to mean? Anyway I'm with POSper."
Part of the reason I like POSper is because the only google hits are typos so it's pretty easy to ensure that we aren't going to hit any trademark issues :)
I understand that there could be problems with OSPos, but if there would be a way to avoid these problems, I still vote for it!
This is my Idea:
JSA - Java Store Appplication
Why not?
Regards