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What? Do you think they own the idea of addition?
by adenozine 5y ago
What? Do you think they own the idea of addition?
- TchoBeer 5y agoPublishing in mathematics has been a nightmare ever since Google merged with the abstract concept of addition
- wcarss 5y agoI was thinking of Twitter as a social/comment/news webapp company using the word "plus" to market a new product in a space where a cash-rich competitor with a decade-old product with broadly similar functionality already uses the word "plus" as the entire name of their own entry in the category. An analog might be game publisher King (maker of Candy Crush Saga) initiating legal proceedings against makers of other games that used the word "Saga" or "Candy", e.g. "Banner Saga"[1], even though those are obviously not reasonable claims -- and I think they lost? Regardless, they're still able to try, and it exerted pressure. So, imagine you're sitting in a board room at Twitter, naming your new social web app product, and someone says, "How about 'Twitter+'?", and you know there's Disney+, and Apple TV+, and Google+ all already out there, and you say, "nah... that sounds like a headache we can do without." But maybe not, hence why I noted I was merely wondering. 1 - https://metro.co.uk/2014/01/22/candy-crush-makers-sue-the-banner-saga-trademark-the-word-candy-4272683/ https://metro.co.uk/2014/01/22/candy-crush-makers-sue-the-ba...