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"The attempt to take revenue for non-commercial purposes on a licensing model failed." Irrespective of my opinion on trademarking words: How can they say after
by Aardwolf 14y ago
"The attempt to take revenue for non-commercial purposes on a licensing model failed."
Irrespective of my opinion on trademarking words: How can they say after just a few days that a revenue model failed? It seems a bit fast.
- simcop2387 14y agoI think it's likely they realized they were wrong about how many people would back off and settle.
- th0br0 14y agoMuch rather, given that they intend to start up this "Tech_Hub" thing, they realized, that enforcing licensing claims (and the negative PR that generates) would give them a bad public perception... esp. in the dev world which they seem to be targeting with said "Tech_Hub"
- Aardwolf 14y agoSo, uh, they're trying to target the dev world while not actually having the mindset of the dev world?
- iSnow 14y agoIt's a nice way to say "we tried to trademark-troll by asking small-scale hackathlon organizers for 2500 EUR and got our ass whipped by the community".