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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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    2 years ago

    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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        2 years ago

        And now it looks like it is 😁

        • d_k_bo@feddit.de
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          2 years ago

          Always has been

    • suoko@feddit.it
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      2 years ago

      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.

  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
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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.

  • mcepl@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • ☭SaltyIcetea☭@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

  • Holzkohlen@feddit.de
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    You can’t trademark a letter of the alphabet.

    • herr@lemmy.world
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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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    The name X is not copyrightable as far as I know. There is a lot of stuff named X.

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

    • xia@lemmy.ca
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      2 years ago

      Gotta sue the alphabet, at that point.

  • netwren@lemmy.world
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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?

      • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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        which one tho

        Yes.

  • hackris@lemmy.ml
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    Oops, I guess all my math problems infringe a trademark. There are simply way too many things named X. Also, the X.org foundation don’t have as much money as Twitter, which makes any fight a lost cause.

  • aperson@beehaw.org
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    Because x.com existed for much longer than x.org?

  • imgprojts@lemmy.mlOP
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    I assumed this would happen in the first week.

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