Storksforlegs@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years agoElon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademarkfuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square76linkfedilinkarrow-up1293arrow-down10 cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up1293arrow-down1external-linkElon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademarkfuturism.comStorksforlegs@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square76linkfedilink cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
minus-squarepruwyben@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up70·2 years agoThis raises the question, why was a company allowed to trademark a letter?
minus-squareNeighborhood Nerd @mastodon.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 years ago@pruwybn @storksforlegs In the future, everytime you use the letter X, even to text, you will be charged a fee of x amount of cents based on your income.
minus-squareBoeman@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 years agoWill you be charged a fee for using the letter as a variable in that statement?
minus-squareElBarto777@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 years agoEh. If I start my X Laundromat business, Microsoft won’t come after me.
minus-squareAndres Jalinton@mastodon.hardcoredevs.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years ago@pruwybn @storksforlegs Because *money*
This raises the question, why was a company allowed to trademark a letter?
It is context sensitive
@pruwybn @storksforlegs In the future, everytime you use the letter X, even to text, you will be charged a fee of x amount of cents based on your income.
Will you be charged a fee for using the letter as a variable in that statement?
Eh. If I start my X Laundromat business, Microsoft won’t come after me.
@pruwybn @storksforlegs
Because *money*