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by craigching 4210 days ago
I'm not sure what you're asking, you left out the key part of the quote:

> the team hasn’t actually set up this foundation because they’re still hoping that Joyent will let them to use the Node.js trademark.

Frankly, I kinda like the name Io.js better than Node.js

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> Frankly, I kinda like the name Io.js better than Node.js

Well, if it was for a project that was implementing Io [0] on top of JavaScript, sure. For a server-side JS stack based on V8, I don't really like the name at all.

[0] http://iolanguage.org/

It's more likely that they be called Microsoft.js than Node.js at this point.