Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Major announcement

["John R." <jhoger@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/7/06, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2006, at 4:44 PM, John R. wrote:
>
> > "2) With your obvious people skills, have you considered going into
> > politics?"
> > No discussion prior to the "move," a backhanded slap to anyone that
> > doesn't work at CACE as being non-core-developers, etc.
>
> Only one of the core developers, in the sense of people with
> privileges to directly commit to the Subversion repository, works for
> CACE.

Interesting. From the actual Wireshark FAQ:

> Q 1.2: What's up with the name change? Is Wireshark a fork?
>
> A: In May of 2006, the original author of Ethereal(r) went to work for CACE Technologies (best known for WinPcap). At that time he started the Wireshark open-source project.
>
> Wireshark is almost (but not quite) a fork. Normally a "fork" of an open source project results in two names, web sites, development teams, support infrastructures, etc. This is the case with Wireshark except for one notable exception -- every member of the core development team is now working on Wireshark.

Further there appears to be a company called wireshark already
http://wireshark.com/  but I guess there's no trademark infringement
since there's little likelihood of confusion.  Still, a strange choice
considering Ethereal already has a lot of cachet.

Curiouser and curiouser... lets countdown to use of the phrase
"jumping the wireshark" on Slashdot...

-- John.
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