(trimmed to remove unnecessary accusations and name-calling)palidaluna wrote:(Your Browser, Your Way™)
You suggested false freedom of choice.
You´re corupted by Big Data Money.
I don´t think any trademarketed ways are the right ones for anyfreebody.
Freebody People do not need trademarketing ways.
Common law Trademarks ™ exist for people and entities to claim a trade name/identification for themselves. They exist to prevent copycats from causing confusion which vendor/publisher/dev/etc. is the "genuine article", by giving them some legal levers to use in case there is ambiguity or deliberate market confusion about something put out to the public, i.e. a way to take legal action to show they were first and actively using a certain trade name/mark.
Claiming such a name has nothing to do with being paid by anyone or limiting choice. Trademarks aren't exclusive to big companies, either. Just because someone personally thinks it's fine to "wing it" and run the risk of some other entity claiming a trade name later on and potentially lose what the public has come to know a project or product by, doesn't mean it's a bad idea on its face to make the public claim to a trade name. Because that is literally all it stands for: "Let it be known to everyone that this is the official name or mark for what I do, and you should not be using it for something similar". Not all that difficult to understand, I hope.
Free software vendors do need this kind of protection if there is a risk of someone else claiming the same name, commercially or not.
