It would appear Borland felt some need to hold onto TObject and not let it leave with their development tool spin off. That seems like a really odd move. What can TObject mean outside a development reference?
I would guess they have a trademark on it and thought the trademark had some intrinsic value. The clue would be that Allen mentioned the trademarks "Webvolutionary" and "Living la vida Linux". My understanding of trademarks is that if they don't keep using it then they loose it. Since after the spin off they would no longer have an products that made use of TObject they would loose the trademark anyway. How odd.
I thought I would pop out to the US PTO web site and see if there is a registered trademark on TObject. I couldn't find any. I did however find that trademark on Webvolutionaries was registered by Inprise (now known as Borland) is abandond and dead!
Thanks to Allen Bauer the battle was won and the new spun off "DevCo" will keep TObject. As it should be! Thanks Allen!
I know Borland had a battle with Microsoft over IUnknown a while ago. Thus the birth of IInterface (which Borland may be trying to hold onto as well!) Go get'em Allen! BTW, neither IUnknown or IInterface have a registered trademark.
Of course being that the post was on April 1st, it could all be an April Fooks joke!
Subject Tags: [Programming] [Software] [TObject] [IUnknown] [IInterface] [Borland] [Delphi] [Microsoft] [Trademark] [DevCo][April Fools]
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When I read this, my impression was that this must be joke.
Doug R.
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