Plone Foundation Sets Open Source Standards

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The Plone Foundation's work to secure Plone's brand identity and place it in neutral community ownership sets Plone apart from many open-source communities.

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CMSWire takes note of the Plone Foundation's recent announcement that it has secured worldwide ownership of the Plone trademark:

In May 2004, the Plone Foundation was formed as a supporting organization for Plone, an open source web content management solution. They have finally achieved one of their key objectives — to have the Plone community at large take ownership of the “Plone” word in nearly all areas of the world.

In doing so, the open source community has set the bar just that much higher for what we all consider “open source”.

In an attempt to further define the Plone name as community owned and not applicable to any single company, Plone Solutions — one of the biggest contributors to the Plone cms — has chosen to change their name to Jarn (old Norse for “iron”).

This move demonstrates the support many companies are giving to the community agenda and not their own ambitions.

This is what Open Source is supposed to be about, right? A large independent community of developers and companies supporting a product that they believe is the best solution without the the competing interests of individual vendors involved. Not many other CMS communities can say this.

Published

Dec 7, 2007