49 points by luismedel 7 hours ago | 2 comments
rpcope1 6 hours ago
Micron seems like a bad naming choice...maybe it predates the manufacturer?
Rochus 4 hours ago
It's the abbreviation of Micro Oberon, therefore a quite obvious naming choice; there is no real risk of confusion with commercial offers under this name; it's also a common name in science.
kragen 4 hours ago
Wouldn't be surprising if the computer/RAM company had registered the trademark in some countries for the field of software.
Rochus 4 hours ago
They surely have better things to do than worry about what I call my programming language.
kragen 4 hours ago
If they have a trademark they don't defend, they can lose it.
nine_k 2 hours ago
The word "micron" is a common unit of measurement (μm). The trademark Micron™ only applies to microelectronic hardware, I suppose.
achierius 47 minutes ago
They also have a Micron trademark for software, as they sell some software packages. So it's really just a question of whether or not they notice and decide to go after you.
kragen 2 hours ago
I hope you are correct, but probably continuing the discussion usefully would require doing a trademark search.
Rochus 4 hours ago
I think we can skip this discussion.
kragen 3 hours ago
Okay.
Hannah203 2 hours ago
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