HLMenckenFan@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoElon Musk Rebranded Twitter as 'X.' Users Immediately Rejected the Changetime.comexternal-linkmessage-square76fedilinkarrow-up1352arrow-down120
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minus-squareredcalcium@lemmy.institutelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·11 months agoIt’s worse, unicode already has the “𝕏” character for the past 22 years: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F
minus-squaretal@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-211 months agoOh, that’s also a thought. IIRC Intel tried trademarking the letter “i” at one point and the USPTO wouisn’t allow it, so I dunno if a single-character trademark is considered distinctive enough. Xorg’s has more stuff to it than just the base letter.
minus-squareResol van Lemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoDespite this, when I do a Google search on “𝕏”, it pretends that I searched for “X”. So although it may look different, it behaves all the same.
minus-squaretony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoAnd Meta already trademarked an ‘X’… https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-holds-rights-to-x-twitter-rebrand-elon-musk-2023-7?r=US&IR=T
It’s worse, unicode already has the “𝕏” character for the past 22 years:
https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F
Oh, that’s also a thought. IIRC Intel tried trademarking the letter “i” at one point and the USPTO wouisn’t allow it, so I dunno if a single-character trademark is considered distinctive enough. Xorg’s has more stuff to it than just the base letter.
Despite this, when I do a Google search on “𝕏”, it pretends that I searched for “X”.
So although it may look different, it behaves all the same.
And Meta already trademarked an ‘X’…
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-holds-rights-to-x-twitter-rebrand-elon-musk-2023-7?r=US&IR=T