'Other commenters support renaming the language "Issue 9," a reference both to the dispute thread and to Bell Labs' distributed operating system Plan 9, which was developed in part by Google Go creators Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. ' - j1m from Bookmarklet

I love how an honest naming conflict becomes "evil" when applied to Google. And of course there's always the howls of "how could a search company fail to know about this?" -- yeah, "go" is a really easy name to search for unambiguously, and everyone at Google walks around with a copy of the web embedded in their brains. Sheesh. - Joel Webber

I imagine the Reddit crowd will get this out of their system after a few weeks and turn their attention elsewhere. - Matt Mastracci

@Joel, yes, well, I would say that in general the public discourse is dominated by the notion that, since "there are 2 sides to every story! [sic]" whenever any idea is before you, you can generate another valid idea by inverting it. Thus Google's "Don't Be Evil" slogan, which is sincere, idealistic, and, perhaps most important, catchy, is routinely inverted into "Google Is Evil" not because of any actual conviction, but because inverting valid ideas is de rigeur. (Not that I have any particular opinion about what would be right in this case, beyond hoping that they change the name to Goo, which would be a cooler name.) - j1m