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Revolt's rename to stoat is probably worse than any rebranding MSFT done ever.

• rickstanley 9mo ago
  It's because of the trademark: https://stoat.chat/updates/long-live-stoat https://stoat.chat/updates/long-live-stoat Nevertheless, I don't like the new name either, oh well... I like this comment though: Imagine you make a free software project and it runs into trademark issues because people have more money than you to register in more classes than your project. And then even though your project existed first, they still come after you anyway. And from that an even more expensive rebranding from this as well. from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626225 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626225, not sure how accurate it is, but it makes me want to revolt .
  • phendrenad2 9mo ago
    I wish there was more info. Who sent the C&D? Did that entity seem likely to have enough money to actually sue, and did they seem immune to the negative press if they did sue? Is that company in an unrelated-enough industry that they could just call it "Revoltchat" or something and be safe? Did they at least show it to a lawyer? Why didn't they publish the C&D? I'm not a lawyer, but this kind of thing happens enough that I've asked GPT to explain it to me, and I think most people roll over at the first legal demand, no matter how outrageous. Calling it "stoat" seems like a form of self-destructive protest.
• kibwen 9mo ago
  It's open source, I'm tempted to fork it and do nothing other than change the branding.
• rsynnott 9mo ago
  "[beaver emoji] Revolt is Stoat now" Argh. If there's no stoat emoji, petition the Unicode Consortium for one, don't just use a beaver. It's not even the right family; the badger emoji would be closer.