Re:A discussion about the breaking of the Internet
by scotty79 on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @06:18PM
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> "No. I'll actually release something else with that name" [implied by 'I'm actually building a project etc]
It think you got it wrong. He's just saying that his using that name for the project he is currently building. It's already released. It's on npm. Maybe lawyer mistakenly inferred future tense like you did but there was none.
"We want this name. Will you sell it to us?"
"No. I'll actually release something else with that name" [implied by 'I'm actually building a project etc]
"If you do release a project by that name, then our lawyers will have no choice but to enforce the trademark"
The rest of the exchange I can sort of agree with, but when you are actually negotiating, you don't usually call people names. That usually is grounds for terminating the negotiation, which happened.