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We live in an age where three massively bloated companies are going to battle it out over who owns a letter.
That asteroid won’t come soon enough.
I'm voting Giant Meteor 2024
Virus emerging from the permafrost is my guess.
Oh no it's not my guess, it's the candidate I'm voting for in the 2024 Presidential election.
Now you’ve given me something else to worry about…
Thankfully we don't drink sea water. Well, most of us don't at least.
Blue Ocean Event 2027 is looking pretty likely, so there's not too long to wait.
I hope all three teams lose
Hey! I'm enjoying the show here
I hope I'm not alone in finding it utterly ridiculous that a company can literally hold rights over a single letter.
Keep in mind that it's in a particular context. It seems a bit ridiculous as a headline, but if they were actively using the branding, it might not seem so ridiculous: imagine Facebook (I will not call them Meta) is already operating a social media site for posting short thoughts called X with the TLD social (hypothetically). And they've been operating it as X for 10 years. Then Elon does this. Clearly Facebook has a suit because that's straight-up infringement.
This is a little more hazy because Facebook isn't actively using their X trademark, and it's not exactly the same as Twitter. But they do hold the rights to it (as far as I can tell from the one tweet (xeet?) about it). And it's not (quite) as ridiculous as it sounds.
Also,
Twitter auto-replied to Insider's request for comment with a message saying that the communications department would get back to us soon.
Is this a euphemism for the poop emoji??
A “tweet” is now an “x”. So somebody x’d that x was already trademarked. Dumb as fuck. My 8 year old is even over here calling Elon a dumbass.
So instead of tweeting something do they now "X it out"?
Yes. And for Twitter videos they are now “x-videos”. Should help draw traffic to the site.
so, I'm just going out on a limb here, but instead of liking something, do you now "x-rate" something?
No, when you downvote the X simply flips upside down to clearly show you disliked it.
Boy, they got lucky nobody already has that
Tell that potty-mouth to watch their language!
I do but he can’t help to shit on Elon. Gotta pick your battles as a parent and all.
No. musk retired the poop emoji auto reply recently for the “we’ll get back to you soon”
Yeah and it's getting in the way of my schadenfreude
If it makes you feel any better, the CEO of Oracle, Larry Ellison, pretty much bought out the entire island of Lanai from the state of Hawaii.
So a letter doesn’t surprise me too much.
I just saw another headline that says Microsoft has it?
Microsoft has it for Xbox, so it would be difficult to apply here.
Meta has it for a social media and I stant messaging app...
If they don't challenge this, they're basically giving it away for free. So they pretty much have to challenge
I think it might originally be for DirectX. Which is where the xbox got its name iirc. (DirectX Box)
You're correct. They used X in a lot of gaming stuff back then like Microsoft Flight Simulator X. Also they had some kind of window system that relates to DirectX. I think DirectX may have been named after the window software.
The X in DirectX is a placeholder, because it’s a suite of APIs.
DirectShow, DirectSound, DirectMusic, Direct3D, ect.
Its like “Direct____”
I never put that together!
Flight Simulator X is because X is a cooler way to write 10. Apple did that with Mac OS too. Using roman numerals alone cannot be trade marked.
What moose said. And X is a window system for Linux.
Lots of big companies register lots of really dumb trademarks, even for things that they don't end up producing. Most of them would be thrown out in court.
ActiveX
directX
Xbox (series X)
Any more?
Explains a lot.
What's going on?! Everyone claiming they own X... while in fact everyone owns X...
yes comrade we do own X
Well, throw it in the closet with the electric guitar, the karate suit, the Boring Company, and that crazy vacuum train thing. Just another one of Musk's dumb ideas that never got anywhere.
So it's a trademark for a logo that doesn't resemble the one Musk uses now that happens to use the same letter. It's is a complete nothingburger.
Oh please please please be true
All of the cage fight crap, and the Threads crap are a big show leading to Meta buying Twitter, Musk recouping some of his losses, and Zuckerberg getting his hands on the worlds personal data again to fire his intelligence contracts back up.
Ahahahahhahahaaahahaaaaaaa..... sobs in poor
This is like reading about politics. Just when I think things can’t get any stupider…
Didn’t Xfinity recently rebrand itself to use just an X for most things, too?
I’m beginning to question this guy’s decision making skills /s
Didn't Meta also infringe on some other companies mark, yet who still is known for Meta now?
Really would be cool to stop seeing this shit all over the front page. Pretty sure a lot of us are here because we don't care about these sites.
Memmy added the ability to filter posts by keywords recently. Very useful ;)
I need this on Jerboa. My filtered list on RiF was fucking huge, and you can bet fucking "elon", "musk" and "elon musk" was in it (with Marvel, Star Wars and other cultural spam that I don't give a shit about).
Idk if he did this rebranding shit just to get revenge on the Zuck
😂😂😂😂 How perfect.
