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This isn't even the first time this has happened. Remember when they renamed Libra? I think they just assume it doesn't matter, and if it does, the settlement w

This isn't even the first time this has happened. Remember when they renamed Libra? I think they just assume it doesn't matter, and if it does, the settlement will be a blip. It doesn't always work out that way for them.

WorldMaker 3y ago
The company was founded on it. It was "thefacebook.com" for years as it fought to get the domain name without "the". (Also, there were lots of face books at the time. Claiming "The" was a wild hair that also seemed to win PR for them.)
- paulddraper 3y ago
  > Also, there were lots of face books at the time. Trademark-wise, "Facebook" and "Book of Faces" are different things.
  - riffic 3y ago
    the term predates the company https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/facebook https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/facebook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book
danielvaughn 3y ago
Windows Metro
croes 3y ago
Same with Meta
deaddodo 3y ago
I'm just more surprised they didn't just buy out the company outright. That used to be Microsoft's thing...why bother, if I can just "embrace and extinguish" them?
- digging 3y ago
  They didn't want the company, they just want the trademark.
  - deaddodo 3y ago
    You know what comes with buying a company? It's trademark.
tivert 3y ago
> I think they just assume it doesn't matter, and if it does, the settlement will be a blip. It doesn't always work out that way for them. Yeah, they keep forgetting they still have to follow the law, because society hasn't yet collapsed into a cyberpunk dystopia where big corporations are totally above it.
tmvnty 3y ago
Wonder how many offers or emails they sent to https://github.com/meta https://github.com/meta