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I empathize with the guy who created the Go! language, wrote a book and now has his work marginalized because Google just plopped down and took the name appare
by rwhitman 17y ago
I empathize with the guy who created the Go! language, wrote a book and now has his work marginalized because Google just plopped down and took the name apparently, ironically, without Googling it first.
There's a "we're google, we can name it whatever the hell we want" attitude at the core of this that just bugs the heck out of me
- techiferous 17y ago> There's a "we're google, we can name it whatever the hell we want" attitude at the core of this that just bugs the heck out of me Did you infer this from a comment that Google made? I think it is unwise to make assumptions about the intentions of people. Remember that this was a 20% project, and the person who started it may have called it "Go" with the intent that it was an internal company project only. Although I completely agree that people should do due diligence before naming things, I can also see a possibility that this was an honest mistake by Google. In the absence of knowing what really happened, I think it's wise not to assume malice.