Vincent Manis scripsit: > Well, you can build a Cobol compiler and call it Scheme if you want > to, the name has never been trademarked. Which gets me to thinking, > would it make sense for some imaginary organization to register `R7RS' > as a trademark, thus allowing some control over the use of the name? > Just a thought.
No, it would not. Trademarks relate to products; Scheme is not a product. Three times (that I know of) people have tried to assert control of languages by trademarking their names: PL/I, Ada, Trac. In all cases the efforts have failed and the trademarks were abandoned: one fork of Trac wound up being called Mint (Mint Is Not Trac). > As for what `Scheme' is, perhaps we could put adjectives before > `Scheme' in Thing1 and Thing2, That's almost instinctive, but I'm trying to resist it, because for thirty years "X Scheme" has meant "the X implementation of Scheme". -- I suggest you solicit aid of my followers John Cowan or learn the difficult art of mud-breathing. [email protected] --Great-Souled Sam http://www.ccil.org/~cowan _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
