D vs D (Digital Mars vs Sun)

John Demme me at teqdruid.com
Fri May 26 17:58:06 PDT 2006


Markus Dangl wrote:

> Walter Bright schrieb:
>> 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.
> 
> I think we don't have to worry about it, because - as you said - the
> letter "D" cannot be trademarked. Lets see what "D" is the better "D",
> and i firmly believe in yours.

I don't see how "better" applies... SUN's D is a scripting language for
DTrace, yes?   If so, then they are not competing (except for the name.)

... I wonder how SUN deals with the google-search issue.

~John



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