Python Trademark Status

Grant Griffin g2 at seebelow.org
Sun Aug 27 17:01:05 EDT 2000


David wrote:
> 
...
> >So do you think they'll let call my auto repair shop "Kodak", or my new
> >variety of apples "Xerox", or my new steel I-beams "Kleenex", or my new
> >programming language "Coca-Cola"?
> 
> You have presented a series of invented words.  The owners of those words
> have control over them.  That's why those words exist: the owners aren't
> willing to risk sharing their trademark.

Sounds like a good idea to me.  So do you think "Pyython" would fly?  It
not, is "Perl" still open? <wink>

sorry--couldn't-resist-<wink>-ly y'rs,

=g2
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