darwinports.com

[Michael Witten]

On 8 Jan 2008, at 3:34 AM, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
>> The matter should now rest since it's hard enough just enforcing  
>> your actual project name much less going after derivatives.  What  
>> next?  Someone could register any one of macosports.com,  
>> macosxports.com, macsoftwareports.com, etc etc (all of which are  
>> closer to macports and even more likely to cause confusion) and the  
>> project would quickly find itself spending more time chasing people  
>> with sticks than actually maintaining ports.  The darwinports.com  
>> horse is already dead and buried, and the set of folks who still  
>> remember it as "darwinports" is a decreasing number of people, so  
>> at some point the problem will ultimately solve itself.
>
> The usual reason to why it reappears is because the port view at  
> e.g. foo.darwinports.com usually comes up higher in search results  
> from e.g. Google than what the corresponding page in http://db.macports.org 
>  or http://macports.org/ports.php does...
>
> And since it shows the same Portfile with the same version, people  
> tend to get confused between darwinports and macports still. If the  
> two (!) MacPorts lists could be consolidated (like the Guide has  
> been), that would probably help clear things up ?

I still think my first suggestion is the best:

> 	(1)	Clarify the situation in the FAQ, in the Wiki,
> 		and on the main page.
>
> 		It should be stated in rather clear terms that
> 		darwinports.com is attempting to rebrand MacPorts
> 		mischievously for email gathering and unwarranted
> 		advertisement revenue.
>
> 		A strong statement makes it clear which project
> 		is official.