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Re:Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentaliz... by ncmncm on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @01:40PM (#28542077)
Funny choice, considering the amount of litigation over that name. Unless you were serious.

When Apple started, they were sued by Apple Records, the Beatles' label, and settled with a pledge to never have any activity involving music distribution.

Come iPod, they turned around and sued Apple Records.

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Re:Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentaliz... by veltas on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:19PM (#28556048)
It's a good example, you can have recognisable trademarks be common words. The trademark is restricted to particular contexts, of course -- you cannot trademark 'apple' in general.
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Re:Spectrum OS: a declarative, reproducible, compartmentaliz... by ncmncm on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:43PM (#28559271)
It is foolish to choose a name that Google prefers to direct people to 143,000 unrelated other pages.
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