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Originally Posted by Omaroo
.... These are huge, listed national or global companies we're talking about here. They're not small businesses that you or I own or work for. They're playing a very different game and have far more at stake. Belittling their modus operandi based on our own standards is somewhat irrelevant.
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Translation, they are so rich and powerful the usual moral and legal standards don’t apply to them. Why would you concede to others such a power over your life. You are bound by rules but they are not.
Besides, Apple's trademark is one of the top two or three most recognised logos in the world. I'd be pretty unhappy about another major company going anywhere near it.
Yes by all means lets worry ourselves about preserving the integrity of Apple's trademark.
Here's a classic example - and it's happening to ME. My company. The following page shows my corporate website design alongside our competitors. We (on the left) were first with the blobby button look by several months. Our customers, and more recently our competitor, liked it and they did nearly the same. Do you think I'm angry? My corporate identity is more than endangered - customers confuse us all the time now. If I could fight it I would. You'd deny me my visual "difference" because they look "nothing like one another"? I beg to differ. Brand names have been blurred on purpose.
I think you make the point. You cant really own these things because they make no sesne ion the real world. The ownership of these things cant be enforced because they are not suseptible to ownership.
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