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JeremyHerrmantoday at 4:12 PM3 repliesview on HN

yes, microsoft does hold a trademark for notepad. As litigious as MS is I'm pleasantly surprised they've left notepad++ alone.

Unfortunately anthropic is actively eroding community goodwill in regards to potential IP conflicts:

https://abnormal.ai/blog/abnormal-response-to-anthropic-laws...

https://x.com/steipete/status/2016068265391354181


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giancarlostorotoday at 6:43 PM

I made "qNotepad" in college, it's been on GitHub forever, never gotten any DMCAs or anything. Maybe they don't care that deeply?

noloktoday at 4:33 PM

Microsoft has a lot of trademark meant to protect them from agression rather than attack themselves

beAbUtoday at 6:13 PM

If MS can go after notepad++ then Bjarne Stroustrup can go after C#?

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