That's not the case at all. I'm not really interested in further engaging with someone being so thoroughly dishonest and manipulative. You're demonstrating what I said earlier when I said that the toxic Free Software cult is the biggest downside to the GPL.
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Why do you register trademarks if you think government enforcement of IP is wrong and just exists to harm the vulnerable?
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Primarily to stop malicious people who previously filed fraudulent copyright claims over our work from doing the same with trademarks.
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I've wondered if this project rename was due to a name collision...
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It was an unfortunate name collision but it was a bigger problem for them than for us and we didn't have any conflict with them about it.
GrapheneOS brand was previously used by one of the companies building on our project. They gave us the name and branding they'd been using.
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grapheneos.com was registered in January 2014 by someone that's now a GrapheneOS user.
grapheneos.ca and grapheneos.net were registered maliciously to trick our users and we were concerned they'd escalate and file for the trademark so we filed first.
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We got ownership of grapheneos.ca and grapheneos.net without the help of the ridiculous Canadian legal system or domain registrars, etc. Bought several other variants of the domains too. There are still people buying more to squat on them for various reasons.
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We've spent tens of thousands of dollars on legal fees dealing with attacks on the project with little happening because of it. It takes literally years for a court case to move ahead. Don't see any point in hoping it can be used to deal with more trivial things like domains.
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The whole thing is ridiculous and the way the legal system is set up allowed a company to drain our time, money and energy via legal shenanigans which ended up not going anywhere. That's not even over after years of dealing with it. It's actually a ridiculous and insane system.
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Oh, the system is terrible, but without it there would be no way to ensure that people aren't scamming and misleading your users. You're taking on the burden of dealing with this shitty system because it's the tool you have to protect your users. Thank you!
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That's the case for trademarks but not copyright/patents which are about getting a monopoly based on your creations/ideas for a ridiculously long period of time. The system is way too broken for that to actually do more good than harm. Maybe it could be reasonable but it isn't.
Copyright has a sunset[*] while trademarks can be renewed forever. There are trademarks in use today, restricting people's speech, that were filed in the 1870s. 150 years and counting!
[*] subject to repeated, corrupt change