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Python Trademark Filer Ignorant of Python?
WebMink writes "Is it possible that the CEO of the company that's trying to file a trademark on 'Python' was unaware of Python's importance as a programming technology? That's what he claims — despite running a hosting company that's trying to break into cloud computing, where Python is used extensively. Still, he also regards the Python Software Foundation as a hostile American company and thinks that getting attention from half the world's geeks is a DDoS. From the article: '[The CEO, Tim Poultney,] confirmed that he'd not involved any technical staff in the decisions he'd made about the Python product brand, and told me he regretted that as it would probably have helped him understand the likely reaction to his trademark challenge. ... He said he now understood how offended the global developer community are and told me there was obviously only one outcome that was now possible.'"
The article seems to end on a cliffhanger. What outcome is the article writer referring to? There are many that spring to mind.
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Suicide would be the only honorable thing to do at this point. By reptilian strangulation would be appropriate.
No kidding. EVERYONE who's ANYONE knows the Cloud run on Ruby.
THL phish sticks
seppuku
Anyone preparing to start a new company and name it "Perl" ?
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If didn't know about python, then the company wasn't about computers anyway, probably they assumed that computers were just fancy furniture.
CEO, Tim Poultney: All right, we'll call it a draw.
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Never knock cloud computing. Whilst I am thinking through strategies to crack problems I will often stare at the clouds out my window. This is neither meaningless nor sensationalist.
The nice thing about cloud computing is you can do it anywhere where you have a clear view of the sky. It can sometimes work with just photographs of the sky.
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Renaming his company to some unique name that others couldn't possibly have thought of, like oh... Apache, or Turbo Gears
Clearly it would be a big foot coming down from the sky to flatten him.
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It is the equivalent of knowing how to speak English but being unaware that there is a geographic area called England.
So, a not-so-insignificant portion of America?
I was thinking that he could shorten Pobox Hosting Provider to PHP.
It's not like he hasn't used abbreviations before - the company was formerly known as PIS.
Resignation?
Sue EVERYONE, with the inevitable end result of infinite monies forever. Clearly.
who let the CEO of SCO on here.
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Reminds me of the time my boss wanted to call a new line of cleaning products "Blue Ice". He wasnt amused when I pointed out that in addition to the well known cooler packs, customers searching for us would be getting results mentioning frozen balls of piss & shit ejected from airliners, and Walter White's blue wonder meth lol
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