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I appreciate that you like the site and want to clone it, but it's extremely poor form (and extremely misleading) to give your clone the same name.
by joelgrus 7y ago
I appreciate that you like the site and want to clone it, but it's extremely poor form (and extremely misleading) to give your clone the same name.
- fastball 7y agoNot sure how it's misleading if it's the same product.
- achompas 7y agoBut it is not the same product, because it is not run by the same person. That matters.
- fastball 7y agoSo every time a product is bought out by a different company they should have to change the name?
- achompas 7y agoYou're making my point for me - that's a legally approved transfer of assets. This is not.
- fastball 7y agoYour claim was that the distinction is that it is run by a different person, not that it wasn't a "legally approved transfer of assets".
- achompas 7y agoI regret using the word "person." luv too be nitpicked on HN The better version of my argument is "the product is not the same because it was not appropriately transferred between operators." Of course this is all squishy and grey, since I don't believe DataTau filed a trademark claim, but moving forward with an identically-named product is still poor taste.
- thegurus 7y agoIt was an already existing product and we wanted to stick to it as much as possible!