Registering Go as a trademark is important to protect it against improper use. Let's not forget "Sun vs Microsoft" fighting to define what could be named "Java".
https://www.zdnet.com/article/sun-vs-microsoft-clash-of-the-titans-5000121284/ On Friday, May 24, 2019 at 3:49:18 AM UTC-3, Rob 'Commander' Pike wrote: > > If that's true - and it might well not be - it's a surprise to me. When > launching the language we explicitly made sure NOT to trademark it. > > -rob > > > On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:50 AM Gerald Henriksen <ghen...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Fri, 24 May 2019 07:40:52 +1000, you wrote: >> >> >The last sentence of the article is not correct. The name Go is not >> >trademarked by Google, at least as a programming language trademark. >> There >> >are other things Google makes called Go (an interesting signal on its >> own) >> >and they might be trademarked, but Go the language is not a trademark. >> >> The link provided in the blog post would seem to indicate otherwise. >> >> If one scrolls down the list the following 2 entries are of interest: >> >> Golang™ programming language >> Go™ programming language >> >> https://www.google.com/permissions/trademark/trademark-list/ >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/152bc446-1839-4da8-a9ac-1cab12dcbbff%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
