Can someone file the trademarks under a Creative Commons license, or has that already been done? I don't know copyright law, but if some corporation files for a trademark on NOSTR, they can claim it. That would be a nightmare.
There’s tons of drama going on over in WordPress land. Private equity Silverlake has bought up and is running WP Engine. They’re apparently not contributing back to the WordPress Foundation as much as the foundation people think is fair. That much seems fine, but Mullenweg also seems to be wanting to completely destroy WP Engine to the point where his company Automatic can buy them up for pennies on the dollar. Getting companies to contribute to the open source the use seems good, but weaponizing trademark to try and destroy another company in the ecosystem seems really questionable.
It’s interesting to think about because we don’t have a Nostr foundation or trademark. How would we handle if private equity came in to the Nostr ecosystem and didn’t contribute? We don’t have clear expectations of the role of companies in the Nostr space, nor do we have a central company or foundation the way Word Press does.
I think it’s worth thinking about the best way to set up Nostr to handle this going forward. Many people here know the saga around Craig Wright and the struggle to define who and what bitcoin is… That feels somewhat similar as well.
What do people think is the best way to handle this?
https://www.therepository.email/mullenweg-threatens-corporate-takeover-of-wp-engine
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Why would anybody care. If you need or even want government protection then why are you using Nostr?
Maybe nobody would care. or maybe some idiot ceo with money to burn could start going after developers. If we don't care what the courts say or do, we're in a much worse place than I thought.