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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?

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 \     “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