David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 years agoHello Matt this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shitnews.ycombinator.comexternal-linkmessage-square28linkfedilinkarrow-up144arrow-down10
arrow-up144arrow-down1external-linkHello Matt this is your lawer speaking. I am advising you today to please keep posting this shitnews.ycombinator.comDavid Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square28linkfedilink
minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 years agounsurprisingly, it turns out to be vastly more complicated than that
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minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 years agoWP was explicitly not a trademarked term
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minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 years agoWhat do you think the trademark claim against WPEngine is exactly?
minus-squareo7___o7@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 years agoNew blog smell, most likely
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minus-squareKg. Madee Ⅱ.@mathstodon.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years ago@smpl @db0 yeah, which has 0 legs to stand on. Hence the question about nominative use …
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minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·edit-22 years agoexplain to me your understanding of nominative use, for a start (or, preferably, don’t)
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minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 years agoyou’re on matt’s legal team right
minus-squaresmpl@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down9·edit-21 year agodeleted by creator
minus-squareKg. Madee Ⅱ.@mathstodon.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years ago@smpl @dgerard well, you sure got the smarts
minus-squarefroztbyte@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 years agowhat… what exactly do you think people like dreamhost and bluehost and such do? in your mind, do they have special dreampress and bluepress “vendored” versions of wordpress? good lord
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minus-squareself@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 years agophotomatt? get the fuck off my instance photomatt
minus-squarefroztbyte@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years agowouldn’t that just be funny as fuck
minus-squareself@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years agothe only way to know for sure is to do a Photography Matthew photo critique thread and see if I get a nasty letter
minus-squareDavid Gerard@awful.systemsOPMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years agoi’m not saying he’s been sockpuppeting on the orange site, i’m just asking
unsurprisingly, it turns out to be vastly more complicated than that
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WPwas explicitly not a trademarked termdeleted by creator
What do you think the trademark claim against WPEngine is exactly?
New blog smell, most likely
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@smpl @db0 yeah, which has 0 legs to stand on. Hence the question about nominative use …
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explain to me your understanding of nominative use, for a start
(or, preferably, don’t)
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you’re on matt’s legal team right
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@smpl @dgerard well, you sure got the smarts
what… what exactly do you think people like dreamhost and bluehost and such do? in your mind, do they have special dreampress and bluepress “vendored” versions of wordpress?
good lord
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photomatt? get the fuck off my instance photomatt
wouldn’t that just be funny as fuck
the only way to know for sure is to do a Photography Matthew photo critique thread and see if I get a nasty letter
i’m not saying he’s been sockpuppeting on the orange site, i’m just asking