• @Pratai@lemmy.ca
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    2 years ago

    We live in an age where three massively bloated companies are going to battle it out over who owns a letter.

    That asteroid won’t come soon enough.

  • @Prater@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I hope I’m not alone in finding it utterly ridiculous that a company can literally hold rights over a single letter.

    • Poggervania
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      -12 years ago

      If it makes you feel any better, the CEO of Oracle, Larry Ellison, pretty much bought out the entire island of Lanai from the state of Hawaii.

      So a letter doesn’t surprise me too much.

    • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      252 years ago

      Microsoft has it for Xbox, so it would be difficult to apply here.

      Meta has it for a social media and I stant messaging app…

      If they don’t challenge this, they’re basically giving it away for free. So they pretty much have to challenge

    • @fubo@lemmy.world
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      72 years ago

      Lots of big companies register lots of really dumb trademarks, even for things that they don’t end up producing. Most of them would be thrown out in court.

    • Hextic
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      32 years ago

      ActiveX

      directX

      Xbox (series X)

      Any more?

  • @sudo_shinespark@lemmy.world
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    32 years ago

    Didn’t Xfinity recently rebrand itself to use just an X for most things, too?

    I’m beginning to question this guy’s decision making skills /s

  • RickRussell_CA
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    32 years ago

    Well, throw it in the closet with the electric guitar, the karate suit, the Boring Company, and that crazy vacuum train thing. Just another one of Musk’s dumb ideas that never got anywhere.

  • @Strangle@lemmy.world
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    22 years ago

    Can he just change it to “X-Treme”? And use X for short?

    Or does Mountain Dew have that one too?

  • @anlumo@feddit.de
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    12 years ago

    So it’s a trademark for a logo that doesn’t resemble the one Musk uses now that happens to use the same letter. It’s is a complete nothingburger.