Re-Branding Ubuntu Eee
For those who don’t know, our beloved Ubuntu Eee Project being led by Jon Ramvi is a completely third party project which is not affiliated to Ubuntu of Canonical in any way. Although, Ubuntu Eee shares blood with Ubuntu.
That being said, Canonical released a letter to Jon Ramvi expressing their concerns about some Trademark / Branding issue that Ubuntu Eee allegedly breached. Canonical just did the right thing to preserve their rights on their registrations and I never heard of any harsh brought by Ubuntu Eee to their name as well. In fact I’d say Ubuntu is just popular which became more popular when Ubuntu Eee arrived on the scene.
Now Jon is looking for alternative names to re-brand our beloved Ubuntu Eee and keep it apart from its root which is Ubuntu. Based on the issued letter, we cannot use the circle of friends logo and the word “ubuntu” or “buntu”.
There were already several good names thrown out by supporters for the new brand name, and I’m also thinking of suggestions so at least I tried to contribute. Here are my suggestions so far:
Netbuntu or Netbook OS – since Ubuntu Eee is currently being pimped to work on other netbooks as well.
Gold OS – since it’s currently gold.
Please contribute as well and you just might be able to get a copy of Ubuntu Eee on SD.
Again, I’d like to say this all the time, Thank you very much Ubuntu Eee, Jon and team.
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Jon Ramvi said:
Sep 23, 08 at 4:30 pmThe pleasure is all ours
Thank you for your kind words
jhay said:
Sep 23, 08 at 10:40 pmI’d go Netbuntu or EeeBuntu? I’m not sure where I heard of this before.
Vadim P. said:
Sep 24, 08 at 4:20 am*buntu is trademarked also.
That said, I hope you guys come up with a reasonable solution. I was bitten by this too – I’m the one who started Playbuntu, which is now Playdeb. But, Canonical was fair, and the trademark agreement was there all along.