Opinion: Is a split imminent? – Synadia demands NATS back from the CNCF

The dispute over the trademark and marketing of the widely used NATS server software is entering the next round. After Synadia, the former owner of NATS, reclaimed the software from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the organization is now trying to have the US Patent Office delete the NATS trademark and logo. The organization, which is part of the Linux Foundation, argues in the dispute that Synadia relinquished all rights to NATS when it handed it over to the CNCF in 2018 and must now comply with the agreements. Anzeige There is much to suggest that Derek Collison, the main maintainer, CEO and founder of NATS and Synadia, made a mistake with the donation to the CNCF and wants to limit the damage. He is now seeking a confrontation, but risks causing even more damage to his company. The dispute began with a lawyer's letter dated 27 March on behalf of Synadia to CNCF, demanding that the open source organization return the NATS repository and the nats.io domain to Synadia. ... Read full article.