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Storksforlegs@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago

Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark

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Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark

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Storksforlegs@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years ago
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There's another big problem with Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand: Microsoft owns the trademark to the title "X." In a word: lol.
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    Christ what a fucking moron. Seems to be a running theme with fascists.

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      I think that’s a requirement

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    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.

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      X is just nostalgia,

      How is ‘X’ nostalgia?

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        Elon started x.com back when he was balding.

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          And he never grew up from then.

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    While he’s at it, he’ll probably start patent trolling Linux community for X window system.

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      Maybe this will finally kill Xorg

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        Does that sentiment include Xwayland, Xlib, and the X protocol? What’s the alternative to X, the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol?

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      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!

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    And in #Japan, with #VisualKei #Vkei (#JapaneseRock) band #XJapan.

    The frontman #Yoshiki even called out #Twitter Japan of their trademark right (which is legitimate).

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      I love X! (not that one) and I love reading this!

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    Other articles saying Meta owns x hot potato

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      Clearly the original was Mythos Games when they produced XCOM. Musk just added a fucking dot and thought that made it “original”.

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