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Re: [Not actually OT] Trouble in node.js land

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Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> writes:

> B) His software costs no money, so no harm has been done even if
> someone looking for the phone app finds it and "buys" it by mistake.

That statement assumes that only the loss of money is harm.

Do you recognise damage to public reputation as harm?

Do you recognise any other non-monetary damage as harm?

Is it legitimate to defend against such damage – for example, damage to
public reputation – through use of trademark law?

-- 
 \     “This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending |
  `\      the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the |
_o__)           hopes of its children.” —Dwight Eisenhower, 1953-04-16 |
Ben Finney

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[Not actually OT] Trouble in node.js land Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-23 20:03 +1100
  Re: [Not actually OT] Trouble in node.js land INADA Naoki <songofacandy@gmail.com> - 2016-03-23 11:06 +0000
  Re: [Not actually OT] Trouble in node.js land Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-03-23 09:33 -0400
    Re: [Not actually OT] Trouble in node.js land Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-03-24 01:52 +1100
      Re: [Not actually OT] Trouble in node.js land Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-03-23 11:26 -0400
      Re: [Not actually OT] Trouble in node.js land Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-03-24 09:09 +1100
  Re: [Not actually OT] Trouble in node.js land Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-03-23 14:08 -0400
  Re: [Not actually OT] Trouble in node.js land Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-03-23 11:23 -0700

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