Re: Objective-C Specification
Re: Objective-C Specification
- Subject: Re: Objective-C Specification
- From: Marco Scheurer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:49:49 +0200
On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 01:01 pm, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
NeXT acquired from StepStone
all the rights to the Objective C language and the Objective C
trademark
in 1995. StepStone is (was?) the company of Brad Cox, inventor of
Objective C.
Is this (especially the 1995 acquisition from StepStone) publicly
documented
somewhere? I'm interested in tracking down the history.
The announcement below can be found at
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3lresp$email@hidden
Marco Scheurer
Sen:te, Lausanne, Switzerland
http://www.sente.ch
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Karen Logsdon
NeXT Computer, Inc.
415-780-3786
or
K.K. Tan
The Stepstone Corporation
203-426-1875
NeXT ACQUIRES RIGHTS TO OBJECTIVE-C PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FROM STEPSTONE
REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-April 4, 1995-NeXT Computer, Inc. and The
Stepstone Corporation today announced that NeXT has acquired all
of Stepstone's rights in the Objective-Ci programming language and
the Objective-C trademark. As part of this agreement, NeXT will
license Stepstone to continue to market Stepstone's version of
Objective-C software in its compiler products.
Objective-C is the premier C-based object-oriented programming
language utilized in NeXT's highly-acclaimed NEXTSTEP software.
Originally developed by Stepstone, and extended and enhanced by
NeXT, Objective-C is gaining wider popularity through the success
of NEXTSTEP. It is NeXT's intention to submit its Objective-C
language specification to standards bodies, such as ANSI, for
adoption as an open, industry-standard, object-oriented programming
language.
"We are pleased to unify the Objective-C world, and plan on offering
our Objective-C specification as an open, industry standard," said
Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and CEO of NeXT Computer, Inc. "NeXT has
the momentum in the object market to drive an open, Objective-C
standard."
"Stepstone is very pleased that NeXT is taking the lead to make
Objective-C an open, industry standard. We look forward to the
standardization of the Objective-C language and the increased
visibility of Objective-C that will result," said K.K. Tan, President
of The Stepstone Corporation.
The Stepstone Corporation
Stepstone develops and markets object-oriented software components
for use with the Objective-C language. Since 1983, Stepstone has
been providing solutions for the development of software components
and systems through the organization of data and procedures.
Stepstone is headquartered in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
NeXT Computer, Inc.
NeXT develops and markets OpenStep, the industry's first and most
advanced object environment. OpenStep versions have been announced
which will run on several operating systems, including NeXT's own
MachOS, Sun's Solaris, Digital's OSF/1 and Microsoft's Windows NT
and Windows 95. OpenStep's object-oriented technology allows
corporate customers to rapidly create and deploy three-tier,
client-server, mission critical custom applications. NeXT is
headquartered in Redwood City, California, and has offices in North
America, London, Paris, Munich and Tokyo.
# # # #
NeXT, the NeXT logo, OpenStep and NEXTSTEP are trademarks or
registered trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks
mentioned belong to their respective owners.
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