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by rschoultz 2087 days ago
It is quite a stretch to begin thinking of a company as having turned evil because of that issue.

As a minor detail but nonetheless I think makes a difference, the name of the other language was "Go!", not "Go". That makes the similarity in line with C#, C, C--, C++ and F, F#, F* and several others. Yes in some cases these languages are inspired by the others and in some cases not.
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vokep 2086 days ago
Because the only way this whole thing went down the way it did is if either

A) nobody did the due diligence of checking existing projects with similar names (so negligent as to be evil) or

B) they did the due diligence, found his language and decided "well he probably doesn't have the resources to be any sort of issue for us" directly considering the existence of others only for personal gain with no consideration for consequences for others (straight up evil)

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