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taco, bird/cat :verified420:

@fidget @petri this is totally fair, imo. if you're making a fork, pick a different name. but it doesn't mean your code can't be open as well.

17 Oct 2023 at 13:25 | Open on meow.social
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Fidget

@chirpbirb Agreed, their reasoning seems to be "our product is a custom Chrome skin and an ad-blocker, and people could just take those somewhere else."

I guess when you don't have a product the only thing to defend is your brand.

17 Oct 2023 at 13:31 | Open on birdinter.net
Richard Barrell

@chirpbirb @fidget @petri there was historically some low grade weirdness about it along the lines of "<niche distro> has to rename it because they added some small patches whereas Ubuntu gets to still call it Firefox even though they have a huge number of patches for distro integration" but none of it was ever really important.

17 Oct 2023 at 14:10 | Open on unstable.systems
Fidget

@0x2ba22e11 @chirpbirb @petri That’s more of a trademark law problem, too. Defense of your trademarks is required to keep them.

Firefox could license it, but there are legal costs involved in that.

It’s not in anyway perfect, but it’s the only thing preventing something like “McAfee Firefox by Intel” from becoming a reality.

17 Oct 2023 at 15:14 | Open on birdinter.net
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