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Re:The product I worked on for the last 4 years is now open-... by _benedict on Friday January 27, 2023 @03:04AM (#34543765)
Open source isn’t trademarked, and probably isn’t possible to trademark. So trademark status isn’t relevant here, only the change in usage.
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Re:The product I worked on for the last 4 years is now open-... by mikebenfield on Friday January 27, 2023 @01:18PM (#34549633)
You're literally the one who made the analogy of "open source" to trademarks, and now you're trying to shoot down my explanation of why your analogy doesn't work by saying trademark status is irrelevant... Good grief.
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Re:The product I worked on for the last 4 years is now open-... by _benedict on Friday January 27, 2023 @02:33PM (#34550642)
No, you brought up Cheerios, and I brought up a counterexample to your claim that such invented terms occupy some special status where they don’t or shouldn’t change meaning.

I then mentioned loss of trademark protection to further evidence that such words change meaning.

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