Former Amazon CEO to co-head Project Prometheus with tech executive Vik Bajaj, according to the New York Times

  • SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    The name prometheus is already in use by an open source monitoring project:

    https://prometheus.io/

    They are both in the computer field so there is some chance for confusion. Especially if the Prometheus monitoring project has some AI capabilities then that would strengthen the case for a trademark naming conflict.

    Apple Inc, the computer company, had to settle and pay Apple Corps (the Beatles record label) money to settle trademark rights for the Apple name when Apple got into music business:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer

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      22 hours ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if Bezos sues the prometheus project to change their name due to trademark infringement or something…

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      1 day ago

      AI would help to account for the memory footprint of Prometheus monitoring… but no. Not yet (I’ve used it for 7+ yrs at this point).

      However theres also the NASA “Project Prometheus” which also predates this, more closely matches the name, but sadly also doesn’t have AI: found here