Ruby before Ruby ???

[Eustaquio Rangel de Oliveira Jr.]

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Hi there.

I was searching some stuff about Ruby and found this:

http://www.cooper.com/alan/father_of_vb.html

There was a Ruby before "our" Ruby, and it's known as Visual Basic today!=
Jesus!
Something that worried me was these words:

"Because Microsoft owned exclusive rights to Ruby, they could do with it =
as they
pleased."

Argh! Is the actual "Ruby" name ok, regarding the mark stuff?

Some more links about that:

http://www.forestmoon.com/BIRTHofVB/BIRTHofVB.html
http://www.webword.com/interviews/cooper.html
http://www.code-magazine.com/Article.aspx?quickid=3D0405091

I saw some messages on the list about that on 2001:

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/9971

but as Microsoft is buying patents like crazy since then, I'm wondering i=
f there
could be some danger to the Ruby language nowadays. Seems that there is n=
othing
about this on the USA trademark office, but ... btw, it only works with I=
E.

Best regards,

- --
Eust=E1quio "TaQ" Rangel
http://beam.to/taq

"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living."
N. Negroponte
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[Erik Hollensbe]

There was a Ruby before "our" Ruby, and it's known as Visual Basic
today! Jesus!

There's also a Ruby used for (IIRC) ASIC design. I stumbled upon it
while searching for some Ruby stuff.