Kandalf: request for review

Ömer Fadıl USTA omerusta at gmail.com
Tue Dec 12 05:23:07 GMT 2023


isnt cognos ( not k but c ) IBM's software ?

On Tue, Dec 12, 2023, 07:40 Loren Burkholder <computersemiexpert at outlook.com>
wrote:

> On Thursday, December 7, 2023 10:28:48 AM EST Loren Burkholder wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I've been working towards getting Kandalf ready for integration into KDE
> (and I'd like to thank everyone who has pitched in to help me, mainly
> Laurent and redstrate). At this point, while the app is not necessarily
> feature-complete or fully polished, it's getting close to that point.
> Therefore, I'd like to officially request a review of Kandalf for inclusion
> in the KDE apps.
> >
> > You can reach me on Matrix at @lorendb:nheko.im for more instant
> communications.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Loren Burkholder
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've settled on "Kognos" as a good name for this app. (I'm not creative
> enough to come up with the name myself; fittingly, this name was generated
> by ChatGPT.) Only after I had already changed the sources to say "Kognos"
> instead of "Kandalf" did I think to look the name up online; it seems that
> there was a company called Kognos, but they were bought out and the name
> was retired a year or two ago, so I don't think that we're in danger of a
> naming collision. Furthermore, the US Patent and Trademark Office doesn't
> have Kognos listed as a registered trademark. With that being said, I'm all
> for staying within the law, so if you have legitimate reason to think that
> Kognos is not acceptable, let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Loren
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