Consul – Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
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Re: Consul – Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
#2Aside from the project itself (which I admittedly did not look at particularly closely), I can't help but wonder why authors choose a name that is already clearly in use [1]. Obviously picking a name is hard. Picking a name that is unique across the whole Interwebz is significantly harder. However, picking a name that is already in use in the tech sector just strikes me as strange.
What I would have loved though is if they named the project "etcd" or "Serf", since those projects deal with finding consensus of rather a different kind ... :)
EDIT: well, this project had its first commit back in July '15. Hashicorp's Consul changelog goes back to April '14. So I suppose at the time this project was conceived it's not unreasonable to consider that few people knew of Hashicorp's Consul.
Re: Consul – Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
#3As a newcomer to online governments, I wonder how things like trust are handled? For instance, how does the government trust that I am a citizen and how do I prove that trust? How do I know I can trust the installation of this software and that its free from tampering or hacking? Universal ID is something that is needed.
Re: Consul – Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
#4I used this recently, it needs better documentation.
Still, cool project.
Re: Consul – Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
#5Aside from the project itself (which I admittedly did not look at particularly closely), I can't help but wonder why authors choose a name that is already clearly in use [1]. Obviously picking a name is hard. Picking a name that is unique across the whole Interwebz is significantly harder. However, picking a name that is already in use in the tech sector just strikes me as strange. What I would have loved though is i…
2013 was when Hashicorp's Consul was started: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/commit/0a7996bc4f504894d...
Re: Consul – Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
#6Hashicorp has a registered trademark on software named Consul[1] and started working on it in late 2013[2].
This is not a good name for software if it is already trademarked and was started before this project (by ~2 years).
[1] http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4804:z7n...
[2] https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/commit/0a7996bc4f504894d...
Re: Consul – Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
#7Hashicorp has a registered trademark on software named Consul[1] and started working on it in late 2013[2]. This is not a good name for software if it is already trademarked and was started before this project (by ~2 years). [1] http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4804:z7n... [2] https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/commit/0a7996bc4f504894d...
It looks like they are pretty aware of it too. There are a few issues in their tracker meant for hashicorp's consul and they directed them over to the right github project.
Re: Consul – Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
#8This project is wonderful. Dozens of cities over the world are opening their doors to its citizens thanks to it. In Madrid, inhabitants have a direct vote on how to spend _millions_ of the city budget.
I wish the future of our society goes in this direction.
Re: Consul – Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
#9http://consulproject.org for the curious.
Re: Consul – Open Government and E-Participation Web Software
#10Hashicorp has a registered trademark on software named Consul[1] and started working on it in late 2013[2]. This is not a good name for software if it is already trademarked and was started before this project (by ~2 years). [1] http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4804:z7n... [2] https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/commit/0a7996bc4f504894d...
It looks like they are pretty aware of it too. There are a few issues in their tracker meant for hashicorp's consul and they directed them over to the right github project.
Mitchell and Armon are good people and I'd expect them to act in good faith as this isn't competition, but it is still bad form for someone to do this. In some cases it can result in the original trademark holder losing their trademark.
The entire system sucks.