{"id":909,"date":"2017-04-21T13:03:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T11:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomaszdziurko.com\/?p=909"},"modified":"2017-04-21T17:42:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T15:42:34","slug":"java-word-will-be-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomaszdziurko.com\/2017\/04\/java-word-will-be-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"Java word banned once and for all?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Reports are coming in from all over the world that some mysterious man in a dark suit contacted various companies strongly suggesting that they should stop using word “Java” in any form or “bad things might happen”.<\/p>\n
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By now we were not aware of the number of such incidents but recently many people from different countries and various industries contacted us to share their stories. Below we present\u00a0some of them:<\/p>\n
One of the core contributors of this library told us anonymously that a few weeks ago team behind Javaslang<\/a> was approached by a seriously looking man that told that they should stop using “Java” word as a part of their library name. He also added that his corporation already has an internal slang called javaslang<\/em> so nothing with the same name should\u00a0exist.\u00a0He even gave one\u00a0example of one phrase they coined:<\/p>\n “postponed to the next major release” means\u00a0“not gonna happen”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It turns out that not only regular people are approached by these mysterious individuals. Our source in the Indonesian government told us that they also had a very similar situation: a tall man wearing an expensive black suit contacted their delegation during visit in San Escobar. He urged that nothing could be called Java except their product. When\u00a0he heard “But we can not change name of an island, that would force over 140 million of our citizens to change their IDs, addresses and as a result would push\u00a0our country into chaos” in response, he shouted “But over 3 billion of devices use OUR Java! This is much more!”.<\/p>\n Individuals, governments, but also companies were on the radar of this unknown and\u00a0mysterious corporation. Former employee of Javart, a Polish software house, called us to share his relation. During a short session over Skype he claimed that their board was forced to change name of the company because it contained “Java” word. He\u00a0also told that man in a suit told them that<\/p>\n Javart name suggests that Java has something in common with the art and that is an obvious lie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Another company that were contacted by “Java word defenders” were a Czech motorbike manufacturer named Jawa<\/a>. In this case a phrase describing their latest model “The fastest Jawa in the history” was the reason why a suited man appeared in their headquarter near Prague claiming that<\/p>\n the fastest Java in the history in incoming Java 9 and they should change their slogan immediately<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nJava, the island<\/h2>\n
Javart, the company<\/h2>\n
Jawa, the motorbike<\/h2>\n
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Javapolis, the conference<\/h2>\n