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An open letter about the terms “F#” and “Visual F#”
- tomcam 11y agoPerfectly reasonable--the same thing RS would do (see: "Gnu/Linux"). Trademarks do not protect themselves. It takes a concerted effort by the trademark holder.
- qntmfred 11y agoI get and appreciate the distinction, but I wish Microsoft would replace "Visual" as the brand keyword with something that doesn't evoke associations with Visual C++ for Win32 desktop applications or Visual Basic for Applications macro memories
- vitd 11y agoGood luck with that. If you look on a site like Stack Overflow at questions about even languages like C and C++, you'll see developers confusing Xcode with their language. With a name like "Visual F#" it must be 100 times worse since it includes the name of the language in the product name.
- umanwizard 11y agoReminds me of academics saying stuff like "LaTeX autocorrected my spelling mistakes". Argh.
- moomin 11y agosigh Microsoft keep doing this "please don't use our trademarks" spiel. It got old at least 20 years ago.
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- wging 11y agoThis reads like the opposite: they're trying to make people think F# is not solely theirs.
- paulddraper 11y agoTry reading it this time.