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Will google be fair to the fmccabe?
by manish 17y ago
Will google be fair to the fmccabe?
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- Kaizyn 17y agoGoogle will likely claim that Go! and Go are different names for a programming language much as C and C# are.
- johnthedebs 17y agoI'm asking myself that question, and I really don't know what to expect from Google. It's interesting to see what happens when namespaces clash in real life.
- imp 17y agoMy guess is the second declaration overrides the first.
- caffeine 17y agoThis right on the heels of Clo[js]ure ... Hey, Google, you can't have all the good names, you know.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoThat's what the trademark system is for. If you create a programming language and don't want someone else to use the same name then register the trademark - yes that costs money (quite a bit for an individual), but then it should to stop people just registering names and squatting them. Of course "go" is probably too generic/descriptive to be a trademark ...
- techiferous 17y ago> That's what the trademark system is for. Very true. But there's also a place for common courtesy and pragmatism, bypassing legal inefficiencies. Go is really not that great of a name, so there is no loss for Google to change it.
- kls 17y agoAs much as I hate to defend copyright and trademarks, if the creator of go! did not trademark the name, then the responsibility lies with him. If one where to try to avoid the name of every pet project out there, it would be nearly impossible to come up with a name that someone used for a weekend of abandoned code, that was thrown out onto the net. Given that the guy wrote a book on his language, I sincerely hope that he had the forethought to trademark the name.
- rdtsc 17y agoOne does not need to trademark names in US.