bjorney

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Cake day: August 25th, 2023

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  • These don’t fall under section 10 though - 7A through F detail the terms that are explicitly exempt from the restriction on adding additional terms.

    Other people have argued that these are contradictory - but you don’t need trademark rights to display a logo if the purpose of the display is to directly refer to the trademarked material. They are likely hoping for something along the lines of “powered by <onlyoffice logo>”. For example, Coca Cola logos and trademarks have appeared in TONS of Pepsi marketing materials, because those trademarks were used to directly refer to the coca cola brand, which is fair use.

    I think what it comes down to is whether the courts see “displaying the logo” as “reasonable” attribution or not.



  • Canadian here - It’s like our national dish. NOBODY calls it “mac and cheese” up here. Don’t think of it as mac and cheese. don’t compare it to mac and cheese. It’s its own thing that occupies a completely different niche and scratches its own itch. Once you realize it’s not meant to compare with real mac and cheese the healing can begin.

    Take a Kirkland beef hot dog and finely slice it into half moons, cook them in a saucepan until it is crispy, and then deglaze with milk and add the cheese powder, before mixing in the cooked noodles. Optionally slather it with ketchup and/or sriracha.

    Edit: Also president’s choice (a no-name brand here in Canada) is objectively better than every other boxed mac and cheese product in existence (I have done blind taste tests) - Galen Weston is still a prick though


  • The AGPL license allows the license holder to specify additional terms of the license that require preservation of specified reasonable attributions or legal notices - this is covered in 7B, and the onlyoffice license specifies that the logo must be preserved for attribution.

    Assuming a logo legally counts as reasonable attribution (IANAL) that would put only office in the right here, but holy shit, the fact that the license allows these modifications to be put on line #655 rather than line #2 is absurd. I, like most people I assume, only read far enough into the license to figure out whether it’s MIT or GPL















  • You are giving end users too much credit.

    I get like a half dozen emails a day about “an error message”, which I always have to go back and ask what the message actually says

    The replies to these are always screenshots, because if it wasn’t they may have accidentally read it by mistake

    About half the time, the error message is “credit card on file is expired” or “12a-482-223 is not a valid phone number”, or some other thing that makes it impossible for me to send an email reply that isn’t condescending, but when I just say “it means your credit card is expired”, I get thanked for how prompt I was at solving their problem