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Okay, but what if after all this legal action Mozilla decides that it’s no longer worth serving the privacy conscious crowd? Which browser will you use then?
Firefox.
Just because the execs decide to stop serving the software, doesn’t mean the copies (and source code!) already out in the wild will automagickally stop functioning. You’ll still be able to visit websites the day after, the month after, the year after… And there’s still the devs, since they’re not the execs.
By the time there’s issues, there’ll still be the forks. Someone will have already step up to fork and keep the work on their own, too; the name just weighs enough that someone will want to be “the next Firefox” (not “the next Mozilla”). Or even better, the devs (obvs not the execs) will have jumped ship into any one of the various alternative projects such as ladybird, or might even have started a new project from scratch, hopefully intending for it to be a leaner and better browsr.
NOYB would’ve done much better by talking to Mozilla directly and advocating for them to do the right thing going for a legal complaint as the final nuclear option. I
It has been already vastly demonstrated by Mozilla, that going to them and talking to them about how they shouldn’t do shitty things doesn’t work.
If it takes legal action to even try and save the browser, I’m all for it.
Trademark is not ownership of the word. Anyone and everyone can use the word “Portal” to speak about the game, its mods, its lore, fan content, likes and subscribes, etc.
The video was originally titled in the already common pattern across all industries in the media: “Work title: Work subtitle - Official Announcement”. It’s honestly not hard to parse, and it does not constitute in itself any judgment on whether it’s Valve’s Portal or the Portal of anyone else who can and is allowed to use the name (think eg.: I write my college thesis and announce it as “Portal: Why the Game is Good - Official Announcement”).
I do be fair and mention I come from the Pokémon fandom, where (until the series went into Yearly Crunch) the amount of fan content more than 7x-ed the amount of “official media” so one learns to parse announcements and titles faster. I guess I’m trained by a different internet than yours. However I don’t get why you think I’m somehow “flinging insults”, but I guess that just strengthens my point that elementary education should be revisited.
The title and thumbnail is quite clear that it’s the trailer that’s official. Nowhere does it says it’s a Portal from Valve. Even more there is no reason for such assumption: Valve does not hold copyrights or ownership over the world “portal” on the dictionary.
What we are seeing here is a failure to follow elementary school education.
Federation for wikis doesn’t make sense, IMO. For wikis that are intended to serve as authoritative resources, you actually want to require editors to be local accounts because if they’re remote, you can never end trolling / vandalism edits. Also, local accounts give more accountability for editorial control since, among other things, editing locally means editing the toolset (eg.: parser modifications, buttons, smileys, custom emojis, whatever) of the local instance.
Yay! Thanks.