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Christ what a fucking moron. Seems to be a running theme with fascists.
This raises the question, why was a company allowed to trademark a letter?
You can’t trademark a letter. Trademarks are extremely narrow and are only meant to apply in circumstances where one organization’s symbol could be confused for another. In general I am very anti-intellectual-property, but trademarks are okay in my book. They are basically for consumer protection.
Eh. If I start my X Laundromat business, Microsoft won’t come after me.
I can understand a company like Google (Alphabet) and Facebook (Meta) re-branding their wider business infrastructure. Twitter is just Twitter. X is just nostalgia, and Musk is being totally irresponsible with these announcments. He is a petulant little child, looking for attention and the likes. Damn childish - his entire Twitter venture.
X is just nostalgia,
How is ‘X’ nostalgia?
Elon started x.com back when he was balding.
And he never grew up from then.
Whats microsoft doing with X?
Aside from ActiveX, DirectX and Xbox…
from trademark (note registered in 2003)
for: providing on-line chat rooms for transmission of messages among computer users concerning video and computer games; providing on-line electronic bulletin boards for transmission of messages among computer users concerning video and computer games, in class 38
for: entertainment services, namely, providing interactive multiplayer game services for games played over computer networks and global communications networks; providing computer games and video games downloadable over computer global communications networks; providing information on the video game and computer game industries via the internet; and providing information on computer games, video games, video game consoles and accessories therefor via the internet, in class 41
in short: basically what they did in the ensuing years with Xbox and Games for Windows - Live
Xbox Series X, Surface Pro X,
iPhone X… It’s not like X, the latin letter, is owned and used by Microsoft only.
That’s a number.
Asteri10
X-Men, X-ray, X-chromosome, XVideos, Lil Nas X, Final Fantasy X…
Wait, what were we listing again?
Cisco owned the “iPhone” trademark and was actively using it to sell products. Weirder things have happened.
Apple simply started using it and told Cisco, “Make me stop”.
To which Cisco replied “okay” and forced Apple to agree to an unknown but likely ludicrous licensing fee.
Twitter got Apple money right now? Because even Elons billions aint shit compared to Microsofts literal trillions.
Microsoft doesn’t have trillions. Where did you get that from?
Microsoft is a 2.6T dollar company…
Market capitalization means that every share of MSFT combined at the current price is worth $2.6T. The company has $100B cash on hand. That’s actual cash and investments that could be easily converted to cash. Substantially less than $2 trillion.
Yeah, but by that logic, Musk isn’t a billionaire either.
And as a public company, Microsoft has a lot more options to leverage their equity than a private company or individual does.
Musk owns stock worth billions. Stock is a liquid asset, meaning he has billions in liquid assets. The $2.6T market cap is what the public shares of MSFT are “worth.” They are owned mostly by people and orgs other than Microsoft, meaning that value is not an asset to Microsoft.
Your comment is low-effort. Don’t do that.
Oh, only a $100 billion? Wow what poors, guess they’re fucked.
Isn’t that still a fuck-ton more than what any of their competitors have at their disposal?
Actually iOS, not iPhone. I think if it were iPhone itself, an actually marketed product from either Apple or Cisco, it would have ended a bit differently. But in both cases, it was just iOS, the operating system of the marketed products.
In both cases, iOS was a selling point of the product, but not the product itself.
No, it was actually iPhone:
Huh, I never heard of that one, I knew they licensed iOS.
I’m surprised Cisco let iPhone go so easily, considering the immediate popularity of the brand when Apple released theirs.
Apple and Cisco settled their dispute on February 20, 2007. Both companies will be allowed to use the “iPhone” name in exchange for “exploring interoperability” between Apple’s products and Cisco’s services and other unspecified terms
Seriously, they let it go for nothing. When did Apple and Cisco ever integrate products?..
Edit: Also it says they’re both allowed to use it. I would love to see Cisco come out with an “iPhone” in 2023 lol
Honestly, there would probably be far more backlash against them than benefit. But it would be hilarious.
I wonder if they got some help with early app development, or something. I’ve always avoided Cisco, so I don’t know if they offered any mobile management or monitoring tools early on.
While he’s at it, he’ll probably start patent trolling Linux community for X window system.
Aw man, I was trying to angrily shout racist hate speech into the void, but instead I ended up uninstalling Windows completely…
This confusion is exactly why Elon needs to protect his new trademark!
Maybe he shoulda just stuck with the bird, or thought of a name that is even a tad more creative. I’m pretty sure a hamster or a piece of paper could do a better job at managing Twitter than Muskrat is right now.
He killed the canary. There’s no better iconography for how toxic Twitter has become.
He does it about as well as I’d expect a muskrat to do it, to be fair
At what point does the game Xcom become involved… That shit has been around forever, and is definitely very close to X.com
Knock knock, open up the door, it’s a subpoena
Trademark infringement means a judge wants to see ya!X gonna serve it to ya
And in #Japan, with #VisualKei #Vkei (#JapaneseRock) band #XJapan.
The frontman #Yoshiki even called out #Twitter Japan of their trademark right (which is legitimate).
I love X! (not that one) and I love reading this!
Other articles saying Meta owns x hot potato
Clearly the original was Mythos Games when they produced XCOM. Musk just added a fucking dot and thought that made it “original”.
