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tzury
on Nov 11, 2009
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"I have already used the name Go for *MY* programm...
I think lango would be a great name and I am hereby to give away to google any copyrights for the name.
eam
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And if there's ever a framework they can call it dlango.
tjogin
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You think you have "copyright" of it because you just typed the word?
gdee
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that's how copyright works
tjogin
on Nov 11, 2009
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Then why don't you take a few minutes to write every five-letter combination possible and thereby secure the ownership of those names?
stavrianos
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because one important difference between judges and compilers is, judges are generally clever enough to screen out technically correct exploitations of egregious edge cases
moron4hire
on Nov 11, 2009
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you can't copyright single words.
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