D vs D (Digital Mars vs Sun)

[Walter Bright]

Thomas Kuehne wrote:
> Walter Bright schrieb am 2006-05-26:
>> Robert.Atkinson at NOSPAM.gmail.com.NOSPAM wrote:
>>> Not sure if anyone knows about this, but Sun's scripting language for DTrace is
>>> also called D
>>>
>>> http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/howtoguides/dtracehowto.jsp
>>>
>>> "See the Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide at
>>> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-6223 for more details on the D language and
>>> DTrace."
>>>
>>> Obviously this can cause some confusion, as I was telling my co-worker about D
>>> and he said he hated Sun.  It was only my perplexed look of why he would hate
>>> Sun and what that had to do with D that we investigated and discovered the dual
>>> use of the "D language"
>>>
>>> Of course... this may be old news and I'm just out of it :D
>> Sun's naming their product "D" occurred well after our D language was out.
> 
> Sun's point of view:
> http://forum.sun.com/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=75217

I've heard that before. Sun made no public announcement of their D until 
late 2003 that I've ever been able to locate, and by then our D was well 
established. While they're right that the letter "D" cannot be 
trademarked, they shouldn't have done it.