OpenEuphoria

Re: Trademarking

• Posted by "Boehme, Gabriel" <gboehme at MUSICLAND.COM> Apr 12, 1999
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Adam Weeden wrote:

>Due to the proliferation of incudes (font comes to mind), constants, and
>function/procedures that share the same name, I propose that we have a
>trademarking system that way, we dont get conflicts (I know I'm sick of
>them), this would also prevent backwards compatibility issues in the
>future.  In order to not let someone trademark standard constants (TRUE,
>FALSE, etc.)  we should have a RDS stamped constant.e  that will have all
>common constants.  I dont know who could handle the trademarking process
>(I would never volunteer anyone, including RDS, for such a large task).
>Worse comes to worse I will implement this if everyone agrees to abide by
>it.

I thought RDS was working on a solution to the namespace/scope issue, to
help prevent some of the problems mentioned here. Is that still true,
Robert, or is the Linux port taking priority at this time?


Just wondering,
   Gabriel Boehme


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