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This article is a bad faith attempt at reporting this story. Here's a previous hacker news thread which links to a less inflammatory article: https://news.ycom
by Someone1234 8y ago
This article is a bad faith attempt at reporting this story. Here's a previous hacker news thread which links to a less inflammatory article:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18914054 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18914054
- freedomben 8y agoThanks for the link. There is a good comment there from purple_ducks: > What's more ridiculous is McDonalds trademarked the name of a competitors (arguably) flagship product - which they(McD) never used: That definitely doesn't give an impression of a McDonalds who is acting in good faith. Not that that justifies the EU (two wrongs don't make a right or something like that), but it does make McDs a little less of a sympathetic figure.
- lisper 8y agoTo be fair, the article does note this in the second to last paragraph: "McDonald’s ... had also been applying for trademarks on Supermac’s menu items." But this was not intended to be a "fair and balanced" article, it was intended to focus on a particular aspect of the story.
- freedomben 8y agoThanks, my bad, I totally missed that when I read the article.
- lisper 8y agoNo worries, it was pretty well buried. Easy to miss.
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