[dotBen]

Hey Bret, I hear what you are saying. Yes, the infrastructure and application communities are separate. Yes OpenStack != "Open Stack".

But the wider communities; the customer communities and the developer communities are going to be in that overlap between both infrastructure and application.

And we both know that once your brand goes through 'the wash' of the media it's going to be munged into "Open Stack" as much as "OpenStack".

Sure everything has some kind of name collision but that's just indicates why more deeper investigation is required to ensure such collisions occur between two very different usages. It is disappointing in this instance that didn't occur.

(I'm guessing/assuming you are a RS employee...) you also haven't touched on the concern that RS is asserting a TradeMark on "OpenStack" which brings some concern into the existing publicity for the Open Stack concept.