There's clearly demand for notepad++ on Mac. Refusing to meet users where they are at with a simple port feels like squatting on a trademark. I find myself sympathetic to the Mac porter more than Don Ho.
That's not how any of this works. Trademarks aren't invalidated by someone not liking how you do business.
There's demand for Crystal Pepsi but you can't go make a new soft drink yourself and call it Crystal Pepsi. If you want to say you are Pepsi, you have to be the Pepsi.
ACKSHUALLY, abandonment is a thing with marks, that's why companies spend money to keep them in minimal use to avoid that, or, like Pepsi, lobby to create "famous" marks.
Notepad "iteration mark" is probably "merely descriptive" anyway (= And did I say they were? I just said it was a thing when someone acted like they were rights in gross like other IP. But thanks for showing off how smart you are! Always love to meet fellow people on the Internet who studied and practiced trademark law like I'm sure you did.
Pepsi isn't abandoned but Crystal Pepsi was close to having been. Thanks though, I wasn't aware you could still buy Pepsi lol.
"Squatting on a trademark" makes no sense. You might as well say that I'm squatting on my name because I'm not allowing other people to sign contracts for me.
You can clone someone's project without pretending to be them. They literally put his bio up. Call it something else, put your own bio up.
...crediting him as the author of the original, not the mac port.
without commenting on anything to do with trademarks, in what way is that even slightly pretending to be him? why would they put another, separate bio alongside as the person doing a mac port if they were intending to masquerade as the original author?
If the "author" of this port respected Don Ho enough to credit him in the contributors section of his project, then why didn't he respect Don Ho enough to ask first?
If the "author" of this port respected Don Ho enough to credit him in the contributors section of his project, why doesn't he respect Don Ho enough to comply with the request to take down the violations?
This conflict indicates that the respect was never there, and thus the motivation for the bio was probably credibility laundering.
> For context:
I received an email from Andrey Letov on April 8, 2026, informing me that he had just ported Notepad++ to macOS, and ask for contact, without providing further info.
So no asking to use trademarks beforehand, and no asking Don if it's okay to include him on the contributor page for the violating software.
Full tweet (since it wouldn't fit in the title): Sam Altman: Superintelligence probably by end of 2028. So we got roughly 2 years left. Enjoy your job while you still can. Time is ticking.
Title was truncated due to being too long. Original title: WATCH: 'You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns,' Trump says of Alex Pretti killing
it takes about 2seconds to draw a weapon line up on target and shoot.
it also takes about 2seconds to move 20feet.
for these reasons a 20' radius is a "retention" zone. anyone closer than 20' has a large probability of successfully rushing you and engaging for physical control of the weapon.
watch what an LEO does when this zone is entered, it is a good indicator of the frame of mind, do they say "stop right there", or mantle thier weapon?
if you were to stop at 20' just because, you may be told to "cmon over here"
or LEO may become wary or softly hostile, as you may be aware of retention training as well, and intend to engage.
Never fear, the 2nd amendments days are numbered too. Trump just said 'You can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns' (the 'in' in this context being 'outside')
4b-model take. LLMs are far more intelligent than you give them credit for. Every new layer of abstraction allows us to develop software better and faster. People constantly ragged on OOP yet it is the foundation of modern computing. People while about "bloat" but continue to buy more RAM. Compilers are a black box and meaningfully inhibit your ability to write asm but these days nobody cares. I see LLMs as the next logical evolution in computing abstractions.
>a WSL2-esque wrapper around Virtualization.framework allowing for easy installation of Linux containers.
So Linux is now a first class citizen on both Windows and Mac? I guess it really is true that 'if you can't beat em, join em.' Jobs must be rolling in his grave.
