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Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by threeseed on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @09:18PM (#41726437)
> irrelevant to my concerns

This is very relevant to anyone that cares about open source.

Companies being able to host any OSS without the threat of a trademark dispute is vital to the software industry.

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Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by jameslk on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @09:23PM (#41726460)
Kind of a similar situation as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%E2%80%93Mozilla_tradema...

This didn’t kill Mozilla in the end or really affect the OSS community for Firefox or Debian

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Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by ensignavenger on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @10:57PM (#41726931)
Mozilla didn't cut Debian users off from the plugin ecosystem or any other Mozilla services.
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Re:Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charl... by duskwuff on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @10:57PM (#41726932)
I don't think there was ever any expectation that the Firefox/Iceweasel trademark dispute would "kill" either organization. About the most serious it got, IIRC, was some heated discussions on the Debian bug tracker; there were never any legal threats involved, and the situation was ultimately resolved to everyone's satisfaction by the name change.
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