Yeah the original OpenSearch project is a different enough domain that I think confusion will be minimal. We have talked to the maintainer and he is supportive. We have also posted disambiguation in case anyone does get confused. https://opensearch.org/disambiguation.html
In general I'm supportive of an Amazon open source fork here.
But the name re-use is unfortunate.
Amazon's argument seems to be "Don’t worry, we own the trademark for ‘OpenSearch’ cause it came out of Amazon originally, so it’s cool!”
That is really poor stewardship of the Intellectual Property of the trademark of a name that was part of a standard that was meant to be an open multi-vendor standard. Amazon owned the trademark to protect it's use under that standard, not to re-use it for something totally different harming the standard further.
But it's just another indication that the original Opensearch, like the era of believing in open web standards for inter-operability that it was part of, is dead.
Turns out that was developed by Amazon according to Wikipedia. So maybe they’re merging that usage into this offering (since that is a spec for search results)?
I’m the co-author and maintainer of the OpenSearch syndication protocol and I posted in support of reusing the name here: https://groups.google.com/g/opensearch/c/gi-iVJZgfdA
Ah, wow. Good to know! :D
Yeah the original OpenSearch project is a different enough domain that I think confusion will be minimal. We have talked to the maintainer and he is supportive. We have also posted disambiguation in case anyone does get confused. https://opensearch.org/disambiguation.html
In general I'm supportive of an Amazon open source fork here.
But the name re-use is unfortunate.
Amazon's argument seems to be "Don’t worry, we own the trademark for ‘OpenSearch’ cause it came out of Amazon originally, so it’s cool!”
That is really poor stewardship of the Intellectual Property of the trademark of a name that was part of a standard that was meant to be an open multi-vendor standard. Amazon owned the trademark to protect it's use under that standard, not to re-use it for something totally different harming the standard further.
But it's just another indication that the original Opensearch, like the era of believing in open web standards for inter-operability that it was part of, is dead.
I agree, it speaks poorly for their stewardship
There is also https://www.opensearchserver.com/ which is the first result when your search "opensearch docker".
Turns out that was developed by Amazon according to Wikipedia. So maybe they’re merging that usage into this offering (since that is a spec for search results)?
It’s what Chrome’s tab to search utilizes. If you implement the protocol users can tab-to-search your site even with autocomplete.