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The general spirit is to protect consumers from confusion by competing companies, which is good. It only becomes a problem when the hypothetical consumer becom
by praptak 6y ago
The general spirit is to protect consumers from confusion by competing companies, which is good.
It only becomes a problem when the hypothetical consumer becomes doormat dumb and half blind. I think that Firefox should have kept the name Phoenix, nobody would get confused by that.
- megous 6y agoGeneral spirit is to protect company profits. For example, I'm much better served by Sandisk having a tamper-proof verification codes on their uSD cards that I can lookup on their official website and verify the card being genuine. I don't remember the last time I bought non-genuine Sandisk card from random sellers on Aliexpress after they introduced this. Yet I have a bunch of Samsung ones from China (probably fakes), and half of those are already dead. Both are trademarked. I wish more manufacturers put more effort to creating verification schemes for end-users, rather than to suing for trademark violations.
- mcguire 6y ago"For example, I'm much better served by Sandisk having a tamper-proof verification codes on their uSD cards that I can lookup on their official website and verify the card being genuine." How so? Once you have the uSD card in hand, they have your money.
- im3w1l 6y agoEasier to kick them off the platform or contact the police with stronger proof maybe. They also can't say they were fooled in turn because they could have verified on website.
- praptak 6y agoIt's not mutually exclusive. I prefer to have both anticounterfeit schemes and protection from someone selling "SánDisk" or "Sandúsk" drives trying to get me to buy something different than I think I'm buying. This is especially true in markets where I'm not a very knowledgeable consumer.