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uhhhhhh, I don't know if that's true. Lotus was never a ruby web application framework. Guess Apple's going to have to change the name of Swift because of that

• SeanLuke 12y ago
  > Lotus was never a ruby web application framework. A trademark's domain is nowhere near that specific. Recall that Apple was sued by Apple Records because it made devices capable of being used "in the record business". > Guess Apple's going to have to change the name of Swift because of that other programming language, amirite? Interesting that you say this. Apple certainly has a history of trademarking its languages. Apple has trademarks on Objective-C and on AppleScript. Its trademark on Dylan was abandoned and its trademark on Hypertalk was cancelled. I'm guessing that Apple hasn't trademarked Swift because it can't: there are two many other items already named Swift in the area. And the Swift scripting language is hardly a threat to them: it's an NSF-funded research effort.