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I've heard of piped due to the piped-link bot, but I am curious about others.

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

And they do it so they can take down malicious copycats on Google Play

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Which they could already do, with basic trademark law and just forcing all derivatives to be non-commercial. Cyrptominers are commercial.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago

Forcing all derivatives work to be non-commercial is incompatible with being open source.

https://opensource.org/osd/

Though I agree that they can already prevent usage of their app name with trademark laws.