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imgprojts@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Why is X.org not suing bird site X.com?

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Why is X.org not suing bird site X.com?

imgprojts@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  • d_k_bo@feddit.de
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    Fuck x.com. All my homies use wayland.social.

    • moreeni@lemm.ee
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      Damn, that’s unironically a pretty clever name for a Masto instance

      • omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works
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        And now it looks like it is 😁

        • d_k_bo@feddit.de
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          Always has been

          • SGH Fan@lemdro.id
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            TIL

    • suoko@feddit.it
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      Cant believe it ! :D

    • imgprojts@lemmy.mlOP
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      It was such fun looking for kernel updates and holding off for dear life… Otherwise your system booted up to a command line prompt. Fine fine. I guess X will just continue to spiral plurally together as one big xmass.

  • banazir@lemmy.ml
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    Doesn’t matter, they are both deprecated.

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    twitter has more money (for lawsuits)

    no benefit for xorg

    the us is ruled by money

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    When X.com eventually gets around to making its own window system, they may be in legal trouble. Perhaps the resulting lawsuit can raise enough money to get X.org development going again.

  • Responsabilidade@lemmy.eco.br
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    X is deprecated. I wonder why it still on the alphabet.

    • ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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      How long until Alphabet claims ownership of X?

  • mcepl@lemmy.world
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    Because X’s janitor budget for lunch is better than their whole budget.

  • dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    There is no material loss. It’s not that X.org was swimming in cash before.

    • SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml
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      Now i have to search X11 or xorg instead of x… Thats a whole three to four letters more… Smh my head /s

  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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    I’d rather them use the money to fix bugs instead of suing billionaire though.

  • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org
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    It is very unlikely there is customer confusion over the matter. Though both companies are in tech, they are in wildly different branches of tech. I don’t think X.org has a valid trademark complaint in this case.

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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      Unless you use Linux or a Unix-like OS you most likely have no idea what the X Windowing System is.

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    The name X is not copyrightable as far as I know. There is a lot of stuff named X.

    • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe
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      Copyright is different to trademark. Any business name clash would be a trademark dispute

      • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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        Trademark only matters if there is possible confusion.

      • stifle867@programming.dev
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        The letter x on it’s own is not a trademark AFAIK. The distinct style of letter X is what would be the trademark. Because X.com and X.org are two completely different orgs with different brand identities there wouldn’t be a problem.

        • yum13241@lemm.ee
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          The basic stylization looks pretty similar.

          • stifle867@programming.dev
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            In so far as they are both the letter X. Otherwise they share little similarities.

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              They both have a bigger line and a smaller line.

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                And one has a distinctive and large orange loop that clearly differentiates it.

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    You can’t trademark a letter of the alphabet.

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      You absolutely can, but trademarks need to be domain-specific. And the social media platform and the window system don’t have much overlap in their respective domains.

      Another window system couldn’t come along and call itself “X”, but a microwave manufacturer very well might be able to.

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    They’ll likely get drowned in the birdie’s gigantic pile of cash.

  • Kayn@dormi.zone
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    Suing for what?

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    One letter domains are cringe

    • xia@lemmy.ca
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      Gotta sue the alphabet, at that point.

      • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        You mean parent company of google?

        • xia@lemmy.ca
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          I kinda hate it when companies steal existing common terms (alphabet, apple, windows, meta); it’s a unilateral usurpation of everyone’s speech, and (to some degree) a violation of the their minds.

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    Because X is dying anyway?

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
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      which one tho

      • netwren@lemmy.world
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        Either and or both?

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        which one tho

        Yes.

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