beanshell [PSARC/2009/270 FastTrack timeout 05/06/2009]

[Joerg Schilling]

"Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:

> One person who publishes something 25 years ago doesn't get to impede 
> forward progress, or hold other projects hostage.

Does this mean just because you don't know what happened before you are allowed 
to be hostile? Please don't....

> This is all the more true since it was probably difficult or impossible 
> for the beanshell folks to learn that "bsh" was a conflicting name.
>
> Since we don't have a "naming authority", we have to make the best 
> choices we can.  If I were starting a new project, I'd agree, we should 
> choose a different name.  But in this instance, the project is not 
> living in a vacuum, and your concerns, while noted, are overruled.

We have naming helpers like sourcewell.berlios.de and freshmeat.net.

Before I create a new project with a new name, I check whether the name I have 
in mind ist unique. I see no reason to support hostile software authors....

Jörg

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