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Re:BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver by bigdubs on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @03:51PM (#21642539)
My understanding was that the internal Borg was fine because it wasn't publicly available, versus this which is.
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Re:BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver by slenk on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @03:55PM (#21642583)
The word Borg itself I do not believe is trademarked.

I didn't think you could trademark someone's last name?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B6rn_Borg

A search of borg in the patent office shows the name used a lot: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4806%3Av...

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Re:BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver by trothamel on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:35PM (#21642982)
Why not?

If you look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_(name) , the surname 'Apple' is used quite a bit.

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Re:BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver by ranDOMscripts on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @05:16PM (#21643310)
Tell that to Uzi Nissan.

https://nissan.com/Digest/The_Story.php

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Re:BorgBackup: Deduplicating Archiver by slenk on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @06:32PM (#21643828)
Wow...that sucks. If I ever bought anything Nissan Motor I would have to reconsider.

I hate how easily corruptible trademark/copyright/patent rules are

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