Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-06-04 Thread Luis Furquim
+1 Thanks for the lesson! Em sexta-feira, 31 de maio de 2019 13:44:55 UTC-3, Devon H. O'Dell escreveu: > > Maybe this story about suggesting the murder of a colleague is supposed to > be a tongue-in-cheek joke, but I want to push back heavily against it. And > I’m sorry that this is devolving si

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-31 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
Maybe this story about suggesting the murder of a colleague is supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek joke, but I want to push back heavily against it. And I’m sorry that this is devolving significantly from the original topic, but I don’t think this should slide by. Though my professional experience is

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-29 Thread da4089
A quick search of the USPTO trademarks database reveals: [image: Mark Image] *Word Mark * GO *Goods and Services* IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Computer programs and downloadable computer programs that implement a computer programming language for use in developing, building and manag

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-29 Thread Robert Engels
Watch out, you must not mention java here - at a minimum spell it with lowercase so you can pretend you were talking about coffee :) > On May 29, 2019, at 6:55 AM, JuciÊ Andrade wrote: > > Registering Go as a trademark is important to protect it against improper use. > Let's not forget "Sun vs

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-29 Thread JuciÊ Andrade
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 'Comm

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-24 Thread Michael Jones
It is very good to have registered the marks to prevent abuse. Once owned, the owner then has the ability to share as freely as desired, but in a structured way (a la open source licenses) while holding questionable uses at bay. In my work this kind of control has demonstrated its importance. In t

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-24 Thread andrey mirtchovski
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 12:49 AM Rob 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. > Go appears to be trademarked, as well as the new design of the Go logo. Golang doesn't seem to be.

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-24 Thread Gerald Henriksen
On Fri, 24 May 2019 01:30:02 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: >Well, the two enries are listed at the given URI, quite far apart and in >the opposite order. The list is alphabetical. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from t

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-24 Thread Lucio
Well, the two enries are listed at the given URI, quite far apart and in the opposite order. Could be a mistake or a bureaucratic glitch. Lucio. On Friday, 24 May 2019 08:49:18 UTC+2, Rob 'Commander' Pike wrote: > > If that's true - and it might well not be - it's a surprise to me. When > laun

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-23 Thread Rob Pike
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 wrote: > On Fri, 24 May 2019 07:40:52 +1000, you wrote: > > >The last sentence of the article is no

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-23 Thread Gerald Henriksen
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

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-23 Thread Gerald Henriksen
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

Re: [go-nuts] Re: Interesting public commentary on Go...

2019-05-23 Thread Rob Pike
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. -rob --