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apparently Thoughtworks has been building the Go continuous delivery tool as a custom product from even before Google made Go! I think the word "GO" hasn't been
by kisitu 12y ago
apparently Thoughtworks has been building the Go continuous delivery tool as a custom product from even before Google made Go! I think the word "GO" hasn't been trademarked yet.
- ewalk153 12y agoI spent 5 minutes searching for the ".go" code before back-tracking to the project site[1] to verify that it was a Java/JRuby project. Even if they started the project first, it can't take that long to add 1 line to the readme for clarity. [1] http://www.go.cd/contribute/ http://www.go.cd/contribute/
- srinivasupadhya 12y agoDid the change. https://github.com/gocd/gocd/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/gocd/gocd/blob/master/README.md. Hope it helps.
- bndr 12y agoOn their website it says: "Go™ is officially Open Source" [1]. So maybe they trademarked it? [1] http://www.thoughtworks.com/ http://www.thoughtworks.com/
- twchad 12y agoYeah, we did trademark it. Trademark's are pretty narrow - computer language isn't likely to be confused with a CD tool.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 12y agoSpeaking of golang (go), this slide [0] lists breaking new ground in programming language research as a non-goal. That may include language name research. [0] http://talks.golang.org/2014/research.slide#7 http://talks.golang.org/2014/research.slide#7