Come home to Pie
I like Pie.
When Sam Ruby first started talking about a new weblog syndication format, one which would allow you to unambiguously have a <title><title>The title</title></title>, and which would allow to you use relative URLs in the <description> (the only two advances that really interest me), he created a wiki and named it Pie.
I like Pie.
Once the furiously undirected wiki energy turned on the naming question, they apparently decided that this trademark application made Pie unusable as a name, despite the fact that according to the FAQ it should have been marked abandoned back in May.
I still like Pie.
As of Wednesday, August 20th, the USPTO has properly marked the application for Pie as a trademark (by a company since merged into another company which is using Piie instead) as Abandoned: No Statement of Use filed after Notice of Allowance was issued.
Pie doesn’t have a trademark problem.
I like Pie.
Hm. Pie was one of the names I quickly mentally abandonded because I thought it would run into all sort of trademark problems, not because I didn’t like it.
I like quiche, err. Pie.
I was never that big a fan of Pie because I unfortunately associate the term now with one Dwayne Johnson.
I did like both Echo and Atom. These days I think I am learning toward Zing. But if Pie makes a comeback…
I don’t think Pie is a good name. There were and are many other proposals that beats it in every direction, but there’s still no name that cuddles me the same way Echo did.
I like Echo.
Why don’t you add it to the current proposals?
I like Pie, too. Someone recently noted on the wiki that it is available since the trademark protection had expired.
Since Sam is an IBM employee, I tried an Arthur C. Clark transposition. Somehow ”ohd”, pronounced ode, lacks the same pizazz as ”pie”.
”Open the syndication channels, Ohd.”
”I can’t do that, Sam.”
Heh. But I’m pretty sure that would end up Ohd pronounced Odd. (And probably QRR wouldn’t be pronounced choir, either).
I like Pie, too.
The Standard-That-Must-Not-Be-Named?
In the comments section of his own blog, Russell Beattie writes: Atom has been stalled. It doesn’t have a name, it doesn’t have a spec that anyone agrees on. And zealots who hang out on the Wiki 24-7 have hijacked…