Re: [Taoscript-lang] Thou shan't call thy language 'Tao'...

[Limin Fu <fu....@gm...>]

Hi!

I spent some time to check things on Dao, all of them have nothing to do=20
with programming language. The only thing worried me is DAO(Data Access=20
Object), it turn out to be an older technology owned by Microsoft, it's not=
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a language, but just a programming interface for accessing Access database.=
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And on its website, it seems that DAO will be replaced by a technology=20
called ADO(ActiveX Data Objects):=20
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=3D/library/en-us/odeopg/h=
tml/deovrmicrosoftofficedataaccesstechnologies.asp

I don't worry about trademarks, I wonder if such single general word can be=
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registered as a trademark. You mention TAO is a trademark, but it's=20
different from Tao, TAO stands for some kind of technology, but Tao not. So=
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I think even if I continue to use Tao,=20
there should be no legal problem. And even TAO is registered as trademark b=
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different companies or people in different places(Google told me this)!

Anyway, I'm not going to register the name of this language as a trademark,=
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so I should be free to use any name. To avoid similar names on similar thin=
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is just a matter of clarity. I think changing from Tao to Dao should be the=
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right thing.

In the following days, I will try to register a new sourceforge project wit=
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the new name, hopefully, this is the last time I do this kind of things^_^.=
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And within two months, I will make a new release with the new name and the=
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new multi-threading feature!

Cheers,

Limin