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by matdes 4372 days ago
uhhhhhh, I don't know if that's true.

Lotus was never a ruby web application framework. Guess Apple's going to have to change the name of Swift because of that other programming language, amirite?

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> Lotus was never a ruby web application framework.

A trademark's domain is nowhere near that specific. Recall that Apple was sued by Apple Records because it made devices capable of being used "in the record business".

> Guess Apple's going to have to change the name of Swift because of that other programming language, amirite?

Interesting that you say this. Apple certainly has a history of trademarking its languages. Apple has trademarks on Objective-C and on AppleScript. Its trademark on Dylan was abandoned and its trademark on Hypertalk was cancelled. I'm guessing that Apple hasn't trademarked Swift because it can't: there are two many other items already named Swift in the area. And the Swift scripting language is hardly a threat to them: it's an NSF-funded research effort.