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Fun fact: KDE was originally an acronym for "K Desktop Environment", so now it seems the official term is "K Desktop Environment Plasma Desktop". I envision whe
by armchairhacker 4y ago
Fun fact: KDE was originally an acronym for "K Desktop Environment", so now it seems the official term is "K Desktop Environment Plasma Desktop". I envision when VR is announced and they rewrite this in Rust it will be called "K Desktop Environment Plasma Desktop 2.0 for Virtual Reality Headsets, Written in Rust" or KDEPD2VRHWR for short.
- readthenotes1 4y agoare they allowed to claim it is written in Rust without violating the new T&C?
- dale_glass 4y agoWhat? I'm confuesed.
- gdprrrr 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526453 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526453
- dale_glass 4y agoTempest in a teapot. Standard trademark stuff really.
- account42 4y agoBeing standard does not mean it cannot be criticized.
- dale_glass 4y agoIt can be, but there's no need for paranoia. It's weird really. Trademarks are IMO about the least objectionable kind of IP. They're there to serve normal people, and are simple enough to work around if needed with no loss in functionality. Very much unlike patents or copyright.
- antonvs 4y agoThe criticisms don’t seem valid, though. Projects have to function within the law, and pretty much any popular project has to address these legal issues. Here’s the Linux page about its trademark, for example: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/the-linux-mark https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/the-linux-mark > The Linux Foundation protects the public and Linux users from unauthorized and confusing uses of the trademark and authorizes proper uses of the mark through an accessible sublicensing program.
- kuschku 4y ago"in Rust", "for Rust", "with Rust" are fine. "KDE Rust" would not be.
- lproven 4y ago> KDE was originally an acronym for "K Desktop Environment" Before that, it was Kool Desktop Environment. Some German FOSS developer somewhere thought "Kool" was cooler than "Cool", which tells you how cool KDE and its design are. (Hint: they aren't.) They dropped that very early on for just KDE. I personally don't like it when commercial companies try to tell me what I may or may not call their products, but when a bunch of volunteers continually get all arsey about their name and bleat and moan about "calling it the right name" when I remember the real name better than they do themselves, frankly, it puts me off using the entire software suite. I would guess others feel similarly. If the KDE volunteers want people to adopt and use and favour KDE, then IMHO they should try a new tactic: Stop whining about what people call it.