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[–] 205 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Fuck x.com. All my homies use wayland.social.

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  • [–] 65 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Damn, that's unironically a pretty clever name for a Masto instance

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago

    It was such fun looking for kernel updates and holding off for dear life... Otherwise your system booted up to a command line prompt. Fine fine. I guess X will just continue to spiral plurally together as one big xmass.

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  • [–] 181 points 3 years ago

    Doesn't matter, they are both deprecated.

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  • [–] 94 points 3 years ago

    twitter has more money (for lawsuits)

    no benefit for xorg

    the us is ruled by money

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  • [–] 62 points 3 years ago

    When X.com eventually gets around to making its own window system, they may be in legal trouble. Perhaps the resulting lawsuit can raise enough money to get X.org development going again.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    X is deprecated. I wonder why it still on the alphabet.

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  • [–] 33 points 3 years ago

    Because X's janitor budget for lunch is better than their whole budget.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    There is no material loss. It's not that X.org was swimming in cash before.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago

    I'd rather them use the money to fix bugs instead of suing billionaire though.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It is very unlikely there is customer confusion over the matter. Though both companies are in tech, they are in wildly different branches of tech. I don't think X.org has a valid trademark complaint in this case.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    The name X is not copyrightable as far as I know. There is a lot of stuff named X.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Copyright is different to trademark. Any business name clash would be a trademark dispute

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    The letter x on it's own is not a trademark AFAIK. The distinct style of letter X is what would be the trademark. Because X.com and X.org are two completely different orgs with different brand identities there wouldn't be a problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

    The basic stylization looks pretty similar.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    In so far as they are both the letter X. Otherwise they share little similarities.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You can't trademark a letter of the alphabet.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 years ago*

    You absolutely can, but trademarks need to be domain-specific. And the social media platform and the window system don't have much overlap in their respective domains.

    Another window system couldn't come along and call itself "X", but a microwave manufacturer very well might be able to.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago

    They'll likely get drowned in the birdie's gigantic pile of cash.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago

    Suing for what?

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    One letter domains are cringe

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Gotta sue the alphabet, at that point.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Because X is dying anyway?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Oops, I guess all my math problems infringe a trademark. There are simply way too many things named X. Also, the X.org foundation don't have as much money as Twitter, which makes any fight a lost cause.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Their logos are very similar. How many different ways can you stylise an "X" though?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (4 children)

    Because x.com existed for much longer than x.org?

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  • [–] [S] -4 points 3 years ago

    I assumed this would happen in the first week.

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