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Re:Steal Million Dollar Homepage Pixels by wolco on Monday June 17, 2019 @12:12PM (#20204440)
My local convience store is called Tom's.. It has been around for many years. The current chinese owners never changed the name nor the owners before. Same sign, same products.. nothing unethical.

Kind of like when a big company buys a smaller company and keeps the brand name.

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Re:Steal Million Dollar Homepage Pixels by PhasmaFelis on Monday June 17, 2019 @01:20PM (#20205198)
> Same sign, same products.. nothing unethical.

Exactly. If it's basically the same business under new management, there's nothing wrong with keeping the name. If it's a new business with no relationship to the old, trading on the name to grant false credibility and bring confused customers into their own shop, that's unethical.

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Re:Steal Million Dollar Homepage Pixels by NikkiA on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @06:17PM (#20219010)
And kinda stupid if you're trying to game the reputation of a business that went bust.
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