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IANAL,but naming your product S2 and mentioning in the intro that AWS S3 is the tech you are enhancing is probably looking for a branding/copyright claim from A
by animex 2y ago
IANAL,but naming your product S2 and mentioning in the intro that AWS S3 is the tech you are enhancing is probably looking for a branding/copyright claim from Amazon. Same vertical & definitely will cause consumer confusion. I'm sure you've done the research about whether a trademark has been registered.
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=98324800&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=98324800&caseSearchType=U...
- volemo 2y agoTBF, building something with the goal of enhancing S3 I would call it S4.
- jffry 2y agoToo late, name's taken for something else: https://incubator.apache.org/projects/s4.html https://incubator.apache.org/projects/s4.html
- CobrastanJorji 2y agoAnd don't forget the other S4: http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/ It's like S3, except better because, by focusing on being a write-only data store, they can manage much more throughput and efficiency, plus your data is far more secure at rest than it is in S3.
- wbl 2y agoHow about the other other S4 https://adv-r.hadley.nz/s4.html https://adv-r.hadley.nz/s4.html
- shwouchk 2y agoI would really like to know how many people send money through that paypal link
- stickfigure 2y agoTry clicking on it.
- shwouchk 2y agoAh, thank you :)
- sdesol 2y agowhy not s11?
- skeeter2020 2y agoS3++ ? T4? My company is a Fivetran client, and they named that company after a (bad) joke, but it's worth a fortune.
- hipadev23 2y agoFivetran is going to zero because they don’t offer anything of actual value and their CEO isn’t a good person. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42434450 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42434450
- snapplebobapple 2y agoThats short term thinking. you need to leapfrog everybody and go s∞
- koolba 2y agoThat’s actually a pretty cool name if you pronounce the first letter the letter sound rather than as an initial: Sinfinity
- jeffrallen 2y agoSounds more like a porn website...
- rolandog 2y agoVery responsive log porn. ;-)
- solardev 2y agoMy aging eyes just pronounced it "sooooo"
- soorya3 2y agoF3 - (Fast Furious Fail-Safe)
- kevingadd 2y agoI'm not sure whether they consulted a bad trademark lawyer or didn't consult one at all, but it wouldn't have cost that much to do so. I say this having just recently started the process of filing a trademark - the cost is about the same as buying i.e. 's4.dev' according to the domain registry's website. Having to rebrand your product after launching is a lot more painful than doing it before launching.
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- rsync 2y agoWhat could possibly be better than being sued by Amazon for some nitpicky naming Issue ? That’s the kind of David vs. Goliath publicity one could only dream of …
- blagie 2y ago98% of the time, law suits are just a money pit. There is zero publicity. A tiny number go viral. I don't think this is likely to be one of those times. Most people would simply say "Amazon is right." Because Amazon is right. This is an intentional attempt to leverage their product branding to promote a new product. There is very little good here. If this were open-source, academic, non-profit, or something like that, perhaps. A small venture trying to commercialize on some digital equivalent of Amazon's trade dress? I can't imagine anyone would care.... Even those times when someone is 100% right, usually, there is zero publicity. Right or wrong, most times I've seen, the small guy would settle with the big guy with the deep legal pockets and move on because litigating is too expensive. In a situation like this one, your marketing spend / press coverage on the existing name is shot, links to your domain are shot, and perhaps you have an egg on your face, depending on how things play out.
- evertedsphere 2y agos3 (serverless stream store)
- fasteo 2y agoAt least cloudflare’s R2 has an argument for the naming (IBM vs HAL, A Space Odyssey)
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- pxtail 2y agoYep, letter S and a number is copyrighted, can't do that
- Biganon 2y ago1) we're talking about trademark law, not copyright law. 2) the problem here is that they're in the same business segment, and explicitly reference S3.
- paulddraper 2y agoS3. But trademark law prevents subtle variations. E.g. creating a product called “Gooogle”
- fcortes 2y agoFun fact: S2 and EC2 sound exactly the same in Spanish - both are "ese dos". Add that to EC2 and S3 already being confusing to tell apart by ear
- crowdyriver 2y agonot for non latin american speakers.
- the_gipsy 2y agoOnly for you lot of Thouth-american thpanish thpeakerth.
- ChicagoDave 2y agoOR Amazon just builds the same thing, calls it S3 Streams, and doesn’t care about S2. Maybe they make a buyout offer. I highly doubt they would sue.
- isubkhankulov 2y agoTrademark law encourages companies to defend their marks. If they don’t, they may lose the trademark. So Amazon has to write these guys a letter if it wants to defend the s3 trademark.
- ChicagoDave 2y agoAmazon might write a letter, but if the tech is solid, they’ll probably just work with them.