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"So, because google is big they get to do as they please ?" Consider a different phrasing: if I start a project with a particular name, work on it for a bit an
by ubernostrum 17y ago
"So, because google is big they get to do as they please ?"
Consider a different phrasing: if I start a project with a particular name, work on it for a bit and then abandon it for a few years, do I have a right to demand -- forever -- that no-one else use the same or a similar name?
It's instructive to note that in many countries, trademark laws include the concept of "abandonment", whereby a name or mark can lapse through disuse.
- jacquesm 17y agoSo, you are effectively arguing that since the namespace is finite that google had no option but to pick a name that was already in recent use ? How would you feel if they took the name 'arc' for this project ? After all, arc is a one guy 'hobby project', and it's state of maintenance seems to be such that it will not be ever in wide distribution, that makes it fair game right ? As far as I'm concerned, any language that has an entry in 99 bottles is in existance, whether maintained or not doesn't enter in to it, it takes 30 seconds to verify if a name is 'taken'. http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-go!-289.html http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-go!-289.html
- ubernostrum 17y ago"So, you are effectively arguing that since the namespace is finite that google had no option but to pick a name that was already in recent use ?" No, that's you making things up and trying to pretend that I said them. And, again, the fact that "Go!" looks rather strongly like abandonware makes me wary of granting its author the right to demand no-one use the same or a similar name.