* Posts by bitteOrca

5 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Sep 2024

WordPress war latest: Ploy to trademark Hosted WordPress, Managed WordPress derailed

bitteOrca

Re: "because an examining attorney determined they don't qualify as trademarks"

Utah's new ice hockey team had three different names it applied for trademarks for rejected by USPTO. From all the reporting I saw no one had complained about the applications so I would have to assume it is SOP

As Trump slugs Canada, Mexico and China with tariffs, industry groups hope trade war weapon isn’t pointed at their feet

bitteOrca

Cronyism is the natural consequence of unregulated capitalism. If left to it's own devices capitalism will tend towards monopolies and corruption.

Qualcomm's Windows on Arm push would be great – if only it ran all your software

bitteOrca

Re: Microsoft remains its own worst enemy

Windows on ARM is a lot more tightly controlled by Microsoft than Windows on x86. Unless something changed recently you cannot purchase an retail license of Windows for ARM, it will only (officially) run on hardware approved by Microsoft.

WordPress.org denies service to WP Engine, potentially putting sites at risk

bitteOrca

Matt Mullenweg is acting like a power tripping child? I'm shocked. I would have hoped that the reaction to the exploding hammer car incident would have been a wake up call for him but apparently it wasn't.