Get your shortnames while the getting’s good.

  • 5318008@lemmy.ml
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    3 hours ago

    It’s stupid

    Definitely.

    they’ll lose in court

    I’m not sure they will, genuinely. They intentionally abandoned the domain name for the website… and they’re no longer using the logo or name anywhere on their product, or corporate documentation.

    The case that it’s up for grabs is actually decently strong.

      • ShaunKL@startrek.website
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        2 hours ago

        This is more akin to Disney saying, “We hate mice! Disney is now a chain of casinos and we’re rebranding to 🅱️!”

        Could almost be similar to the situation that forced Musk to buy Twitter in the first place, because he of course tweeted that Twitter would never be Twitter again and they were ‘getting rid of the bird’”.

        There are more details in the article and older articles linked as well.