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Re:Byzantium Hard Fork Announcement by mccoyspace on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:32PM (#15459165)
The Ethereum Foundation owns and controls the trademarks of Ethereum. While they cannot dictate the code the various participants on the network run, they get to explicitly decide which version of the code gets to be called "Ethereum". That's how they maintain control.
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Re:Byzantium Hard Fork Announcement by notsofastbuddy on Thursday October 12, 2017 @01:37PM (#15459684)
There's a good chance that the trademark is no longer enforceable due to their failure to apply enforce it against Ethereum Classic. There has been quite a bit of discussion about this within the community.
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Re:Byzantium Hard Fork Announcement by rocqua on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:57PM (#15461633)
Who should they have sued to enforce their trademark in the case of Ethereum Classic? Unless the argument is for genericization as opposed to failure to enforce, I don't understand.
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Re:Byzantium Hard Fork Announcement by xorcist on Thursday October 12, 2017 @05:01PM (#15461297)
The also own a lot of eth, directly and through their members private holdings. Keep in mind that Ethererum is mostly pre-mined.
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