Announcing Jython, the sucessor to JPython

Alex Martelli aleaxit at yahoo.com
Fri Oct 20 12:23:53 EDT 2000


"Grant Griffin" <not.this at seebelow.org> wrote in message
news:39EFF829.500C37 at seebelow.org...
> entropia wrote:
> >
> > Then I can have PyPepsi or PyNike as trademark?
>
> Maybe not...but since "Java" was a term for coffee before it was a
> trademark for a computer programming language it may not be any
> different than "PyCoffee", "PyTea", and "PyMocha".
>
> the-pepsi-people-and-the-nike-people-are-smarter-than-the-sun*
>    -people-ly y'rs,

And "Nike" was a term for "victory" (in Greek) from since
well before anybody raised coffee in the island of Java.
So why would it be 'more protectable' as a trademark...?


Alex






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