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You should read about trademark dilution laws.



Okay I give you that. Of course it requires market and commerce, or it would be at odds with free speech. But I see how in this scenario this Orca may want to sell stuff later (like some OSS does these days) so that would be a problem for them.

But... how that makes it OK to go to collide with a venerable OSS project? Because Gnome won't sue? The scope of words that are not registered or considered these strong trademarks is still nearly infinite!




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