2 comments

  • rpcope1 8 hours ago
    Micron seems like a bad naming choice...maybe it predates the manufacturer?
    • oneshtein 1 hour ago
      «The term micron and the symbol μ were officially accepted for use in isolation to denote the micrometre in 1879, but officially revoked by the International System of Units (SI) in 1967.»
    • Rochus 6 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 6 hours ago
        Wouldn't be surprising if the computer/RAM company had registered the trademark in some countries for the field of software.
        • Rochus 6 hours ago
          They surely have better things to do than worry about what I call my programming language.
          • kragen 6 hours ago
            If they have a trademark they don't defend, they can lose it.
            • nine_k 4 hours ago
              The word "micron" is a common unit of measurement (μm). The trademark Micron™ only applies to microelectronic hardware, I suppose.
              • achierius 2 hours 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 4 hours ago
                I hope you are correct, but probably continuing the discussion usefully would require doing a trademark search.
            • tialaramex 28 minutes ago
              No. This is a common misconception. I know, you asked an LLM and it said you were very right and it cited a bunch of legal cases which prove you correct. You didn't check any of those citations, because they looked right, because it's an LLM and generating plausible nonsense is exactly what it's good at.

              Or worse, you just relied on a vague memory that other people said the reason they have to do something reprehensible was because it's legally required, and even though you've heard that bullshit from a dozen US politicians in the last week and know it's bullshit you thought they must be correct.

            • Rochus 6 hours ago
              I think we can skip this discussion.
  • Hannah203 4 hours ago
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