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I think we are trying to establish the brand of this project in these early days, and to have that brand distinct from AWS. I see this like "Mozilla" was separa
by _msw_ 6y ago
I think we are trying to establish the brand of this project in these early days, and to have that brand distinct from AWS. I see this like "Mozilla" was separate from "Netscape" in their early days [1] (note, this link will not work when the referrer is from HN. Archive link provided for convenience [2]). It is a project that AWS is sponsoring and stewarding, but from what I currently know, I think the intent is for it to be community-centric in the long term.
If successful, Babelfish will grow a community, and work harmoniously as an extension of PostgreSQL. And including "AWS" in the brand of the project may hamper the efforts to build a community around it (in addition to complications of using a brand / trademark like "AWS" in an open-source project).
The TL;DR is: "AWS" is not part of the branding of Babelfish for PostgreSQL, and that is intentional. The reasons for this aren't about obscuring the origins or initial sponsorship of the work, but are rather about establishing a separate identity.
[1] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-history-of-the-mozilla-logo/#post-13248461:~:text=With%20the%20launch%20of%20Mozilla.org%2C%20I,to%20some%20degree%20from%20Netscape%20itself https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-hi...
[2] http://archive.is/UMMCx http://archive.is/UMMCx
- mattashii 6y agoAWS is currently keeping Babelfish closed (Apache 2.0-licenced as it may be, no code has been published, making it little better than ordinary proprietary software), so I see no reason to not add the 'AWS' to its name as of this moment, as thats the only place you can get and use Babelfish. Whenever that situation changes, my standpoint will likely change as well.