Google Under Fire For Calling Their Language "Go"

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 12, 2009 @01:39AM from the rename-it-to-proceed-with-caution dept.

Norsefire writes "Since releasing the 'Go' programming language on Tuesday, Google has been under fire for using the same name as another programming language that was first publicly documented in 2003. 'Go!' was created by Francis McCabe and Keith Clark. McCabe published a book about the language in 2007, and he is not happy. He told InformationWeek in an email: 'I do not have a trademark on my language. It was intended as a somewhat non-commercial language in the tradition of logic programming languages. It is in the tradition of languages like Prolog. In particular, my motivation was bringing some of the discipline of software engineering to logic programming.'"

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Re:So? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-11-12 01:58 · Score: 5, Insightful

Some things are ethically questionable even when there is no legal problem involved. A concept often forgotten in the corporate world.
Re:They should plan better by xophos · 2009-11-12 02:07 · Score: 5, Insightful

As someone stated before, this is not a legal issue. It's just about basic politeness.