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jsulon HN saved us millions; we need to change our name

I really like this name. Thanks for the suggestion!

jsulon HN saved us millions; we need to change our name

Every school day for years was spent longing for the warmth of summer, when we would go camping on Chemo Pond with our grandparents. No joke.

We also spent a lot of time on Phillips Lake, Green Lake, and Pistol Lake.

jsulon HN saved us millions; we need to change our name

Fair use with geographic distinction is a complicated topic, with recent court rulings (ie, KP Permanent Make-Up, Inc. v. Lasting Impression I, Inc); we did our best to grok this, but in the end, it simply isn't in anyone's interests to fight.

We are not keen on harming another company to build our own. Our hope was that this would not be the case, as there is very little overlap: Holden Outerwear makes branded t-shirts only, while focusing on Outerwear; we make non-branded shirts.

Let's turn this into a positive, find a great name we all love, and get these shirts made! I'm as eager as all of you for the first run, my closet could use an upgrade.

jsulon HN saved us millions; we need to change our name

We definitely support open source. I'm very active in the Chef / DevOps communities, and have been using/supporting OSS for over 10 years. The first iteration of our storefront was built using a 31 line chef recipe, rails, spree, nginx, unicorn, and postgresql.