David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agoHello Matt this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shitnews.ycombinator.comexternal-linkmessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down10
arrow-up144arrow-down1external-linkHello Matt this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shitnews.ycombinator.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square28linkfedilink
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minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·edit-21 year agounsurprisingly, it turns out to be vastly more complicated than that
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minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoWP was explicitly not a trademarked term
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minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoWhat do you think the trademark claim against WPEngine is exactly?
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minus-squareKg. Madee Ⅱ.@mathstodon.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year ago@smpl @db0 yeah, which has 0 legs to stand on. Hence the question about nominative use …
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minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-21 year agoexplain to me your understanding of nominative use, for a start (or, preferably, don’t)
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minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·1 year agoyou’re on matt’s legal team right
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minus-squareKg. Madee Ⅱ.@mathstodon.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year ago@smpl @dgerard well, you sure got the smarts
minus-squarefroztbyte@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agowhat… what exactly do you think people like dreamhost and bluehost and such do? in your mind, do they have special dreampress and bluepress “vendored” versions of wordpress? good lord
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minus-squareself@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agophotomatt? get the fuck off my instance photomatt
minus-squarefroztbyte@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agowouldn’t that just be funny as fuck
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unsurprisingly, it turns out to be vastly more complicated than that
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WPwas explicitly not a trademarked termdeleted by creator
What do you think the trademark claim against WPEngine is exactly?
New blog smell, most likely
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@smpl @db0 yeah, which has 0 legs to stand on. Hence the question about nominative use …
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explain to me your understanding of nominative use, for a start
(or, preferably, don’t)
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you’re on matt’s legal team right
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@smpl @dgerard well, you sure got the smarts
what… what exactly do you think people like dreamhost and bluehost and such do? in your mind, do they have special dreampress and bluepress “vendored” versions of wordpress?
good lord
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photomatt? get the fuck off my instance photomatt
wouldn’t that just be funny as fuck