"The project is called common-node, because it's a CommonJS compatibility layer for Node.js, i.e. it depends on it. I'm not very good at coming up with original names and that seemed to be self descriptive enough, so that's what I went with. I'm pushing for more of a Narwhal like approach, where the underlying platform & engine are irrelevant and one can have the same server side JavaScript code running everywhere. All higher level packages built on top of these CommonJS modules are completely independent of Node and hence won't use the word "node" anywhere in their names: https://github.com/olegp/commo..." - Oleg Podsechin