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This raises the question, why was a company allowed to trademark a letter?
You can’t trademark a letter. Trademarks are extremely narrow and are only meant to apply in circumstances where one organization’s symbol could be confused for another. In general I am very anti-intellectual-property, but trademarks are okay in my book. They are basically for consumer protection.
I can understand a company like Google (Alphabet) and Facebook (Meta) re-branding their wider business infrastructure. Twitter is just Twitter. X is just nostalgia, and Musk is being totally irresponsible with these announcments. He is a petulant little child, looking for attention and the likes. Damn childish - his entire Twitter venture.
X is just nostalgia,
How is ‘X’ nostalgia?
Elon started x.com back when he was balding.
And he never grew up from then.
Yes, mostly.
X.com was Musk’s site after he worked at Scotiabank. They merged with another site that had a product called Paypal that was getting some traction. Musk tried to tie the other services X.com was offering at the hip with Paypal, and if you’re old enough you probably remember a “Paypal by X.com” (or similar) branding back when you needed to buy a used 56k modem from eBay.
Musk wanted to rebrand everything to x.com, was a huge baby about it, and got pushed out as an executive and replaced by Peter Thiel. A few years ago, Musk purchased the X.com domain name from Paypal like it was a treasured childhood sled, and he’s finally found something (very stupid) to do with it.
Cisco owned the “iPhone” trademark and was actively using it to sell products. Weirder things have happened.
Apple simply started using it and told Cisco, “Make me stop”.
To which Cisco replied “okay” and forced Apple to agree to an unknown but likely ludicrous licensing fee.
Twitter got Apple money right now? Because even Elons billions aint shit compared to Microsofts literal trillions.
Microsoft doesn’t have trillions. Where did you get that from?
Microsoft is a 2.6T dollar company…
Market capitalization means that every share of MSFT combined at the current price is worth $2.6T. The company has $100B cash on hand. That’s actual cash and investments that could be easily converted to cash. Substantially less than $2 trillion.
Isn’t that still a fuck-ton more than what any of their competitors have at their disposal?
Yeah, but by that logic, Musk isn’t a billionaire either.
we wouldn’t be at all terribly surprised to know that the billionaire is aware of Microsoft’s patent and more than willing to take the title to court.
Patent? lol
the amount of times I’ve read an internet article about this topic only to be met with a shockingly trivial mistake present front and center is staggering. the differences between patent, trademark, wordmark, etc. are all easily googleable and yet pretty much every article I’ve read on this has been using them interchangeably.
incoming rhetorical question: are these editors orangutans? (before anybody answers, i know editors & authors want to be the first one out the door so they get the most clicks and all that, but it’s really not hard to make sure you’re at least using the correct word. It seriously took me 20 seconds to find an answer on the difference between patent and trademark)
are these editors orangutans?
The Librarian would be much more meticulous tyvm.
Christ what a fucking moron. Seems to be a running theme with fascists.
I think that’s a requirement
And in #Japan, with #VisualKei #Vkei (#JapaneseRock) band #XJapan.
The frontman #Yoshiki even called out #Twitter Japan of their trademark right (which is legitimate).
While he’s at it, he’ll probably start patent trolling Linux community for X window system.
Maybe this will finally kill Xorg
Does that sentiment include Xwayland, Xlib, and the X protocol? What’s the alternative to X, the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol?
Wayland: Can I come out now?
At what point does the game Xcom become involved… That shit has been around forever, and is definitely very close to X.com
Whats microsoft doing with X?
Aside from ActiveX, DirectX and Xbox…
Xbox Series X, Surface Pro X,
iPhone X… It’s not like X, the latin letter, is owned and used by Microsoft only.
That’s a number.
Maybe he shoulda just stuck with the bird, or thought of a name that is even a tad more creative. I’m pretty sure a hamster or a piece of paper could do a better job at managing Twitter than Muskrat is right now.
He killed the canary. There’s no better iconography for how toxic Twitter has become.
