“Such a joke. Good luck to that company, they can come over to Canada and sue me as well, one person isn't solely responsible for a project so that's unfair to pin it on Forbes. I've never even heard of their lame product, make yourself look really bad, that will help!Also (our) Jade has been around…”— TJ Holowaychuk, news.ycombinator.com
“For the avoidance of doubt, references to JADE on the website https://www.npmjs.com are permissible during the period ending six months after the date of these Undertakings. Upon the expiry of the six month period, I will make no further use of the sign "JADE" in any context.”— Jade Software Corporation Limited, github.com
“This decision has been made, I am aware of these issues, but we have neither the finances, nor the time to fight this.”— Forbes Lindesay, github.com
“Why pug? It's short, memorable and widely available. Not only that, but pugs are cute!”— Forbes Lindesay, github.com
“Unfortunately, these people have a trademark for the word "jade" referring to software, so we've been forced to change our name. Fortunately, @davidglivar has kindly donated the name "pug" to us. I've claimed pug and pugjs everywhere I could think of so hopefully we shouldn't have any problems getti…”— Forbes Lindesay, github.com