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Oh man... sometimes I wonder how the HN anger machine manages to find new things to be outraged about. A testament that emotions sell: anger, sadness and outra
by xtracto 4y ago
Oh man... sometimes I wonder how the HN anger machine manages to find new things to be outraged about.
A testament that emotions sell: anger, sadness and outrage are heavily upvoted even for things that happened way back.
- LesZedCB 4y agoI mean, GP was kind, the lawyer was kind. the language of "cease and desist" sounds strong and is strong, but is a requirement for protect of trademark or whatever. in this case it's no harm no foul really, or at least maybe not much. the kernel of truth is there though, this kind of stuff happens a lot, usually from big corps to little guys doing virtually no damage. in some cases really quite damaging, I don't know if any of you remember the Backcountry (outdoor gear retailer) saga from a few years ago. almost all of my friends still refuse to purchase from them because of their legal departments overzealous protection of an extremely common word "backcountry"