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AtomNameDiscuss


See also AtomTrademarkConflicts, JustUseAtom



There seems to be gneeral agreement on the name Atom. Not true. 20 of 90+ votes cast.

Let's declare victory and move on to more important things. The name is important. We don't want another failed one.

But what about the AtomTrademarkConflicts discussion? Atom has worse trademark problems than Echo. Echo was stopped by one open source project that hadn't even finished its legal work. Atom may be stopped by any of a dozen current US trademark holders.

Arguments to sticking with Atom:

Arguments against using Atom:

Proposal Just use Atom