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As funny as this is, I'd not be surprised to see a trademark challenge from VW sooner or later.
by korethr 8y ago
As funny as this is, I'd not be surprised to see a trademark challenge from VW sooner or later.
- vortico 8y agoI'd actually be happy if the name was changed ASAP, as it took me a couple minutes to figure out that the package was not an actual Volkswagon project. I thought the repo was extracted code from some official testing product.
- askmike 8y agoYou thought it was a Volkswagen project named "volkswagen"?
- freehunter 8y agoBefore I clicked the link I thought it would go to a Github repo owned by Volkswagen showing they had written code to forcibly pass CI tests. It's not clear from the title that it's not actually talking about VW the company.
- browsercoin 8y agoso I wasn't the only one who thought this and grew concerned for the author-a legal battle with a giant corporation can ruin you financially I really hope he/she took good defensive measures.
- vortico 8y agoNo, I thought it was a repo containing code extracted unofficially from something Volkswagen did.
- base 8y agoThis no legal advice, but in the USA to make a Satire you should be able to use the VW name. The same way the Silicon Valley series uses real company names on their episodes.
- kevin_thibedeau 8y agoUsing the VW logo as "satire" would be a stretch.
- hangonhn 8y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_infringement#Factors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_infringement#Factors There would be no consumer confusion nor is this done for commerce. I think he's pretty safe as far as trademark goes.
- briandear 8y agoNot safe from being forced to respond to a lawsuit though — even if you ultimately win.
- SilasX 8y agoMore so for using it in way that makes it technically correct to say that "Volkswagen detects when your code is only being tested and then makes it pass."
- DonHopkins 8y agoKenneth Auchenberg: Well done! I hope that Volkswagen tries to sue you for trademark infringement and totally embarrasses themselves by bringing even more attention to their scandal, then gets slapped down and you can sue them back for wasting the court's time. Volkswagen should be a generic term for cheater, just like Kleenex is a generic term for tissue.
- plumeria 8y agohttps://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Volkswagen https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Volkswagen
- DonHopkins 8y agohttps://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Volkswagened https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Volkswagened
- plumeria 8y agoThat's it!
- jlg23 8y ago.. to Very Winterkorny Streisand, or short VW Streisand? ;)