D vs D (Digital Mars vs Sun)

Hasan Aljudy hasan.aljudy at gmail.com
Fri May 26 19:09:57 PDT 2006


John Demme wrote:
> 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

I think in that context one would search for DTrace, not just D.

http://www.google.com/search?q=dtrace





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