WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me • Hacker News Board

Re: WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me

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Post by 3pt14159 » Sat, Jun 02, 2012, 4:26 PM UTC

3pt14159 wrote: post #90

I don't care how immature Brian is (and boy is he immature) the fact of the matter is there is no basis for the aggression that WhosHere put forth. Brian is a douche for not sharing the whole story. He is a douche for saying he could make 400 an hour. He is a douche for pretending that he can't fight a suit when he can. But the fucking fact of the matter is that he is right. WhosHere is not confusing with the stupid…

Consider that I deleted the parent comment since I can no longer delete it. A friend of mine is in a similar situation and I got overly angry.

Re: WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me

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Post by dredmorbius » Sat, Jun 02, 2012, 8:26 PM UTC

biot wrote: post #47

Brian's blog posting (now with a donation button): "... the deadline to file a response to the lawsuit had passed and that WhosHere had requested a motion for default judgment (meaning that they would automatically receive everything they had asked for - which would effectively bankrupt me..." "The lawyers I have spoken to thus far are asking me for at least a $10,000 retainer just to get started on the process and I…

Someone's clearly been reading his Art of War.

Re: WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me

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Post by jmah » Sat, Jun 02, 2012, 9:00 PM UTC

msellout wrote: post #127

jrockway wrote: post #11

We literally bet our life savings on this and years of zero vacations to bring WhosHere to where it is. Making a bad business decision and living a shitty life doesn't entitle you to sue people who make a similar app just because their app's name uses some of the same letters as your app's name. (Both companies picked crappy names that are poor brands and poor trademarks. It's like calling your hamburger shop "Hambur…

If you don't take legal action to protect your copyright / trademark, you will lose it. That's part of why big companies are such jerks all the time. If they weren't, they'd be out of luck when it really mattered. Edit: whoops, should have read the other replies first.

You don't lose your copyright if you don't take legal action to protect it.

Re: WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me

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Post by tdfx » Sat, Jun 02, 2012, 10:49 PM UTC

entropy_ wrote: post #113

tdfx wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You must be new here.

This place is finally turning into slashdot! Oh joy...

If you're too proud to be a part of an online community where memes are used then I'm afraid you're going to live quite a lonely existence.

Also, since you literally are new here (account less than 3 months old), please check the guidelines:

  If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)

Re: WhosHere's response to Brian Hamachek/Who's Near Me

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Post by tripzilch » Mon, Jun 04, 2012, 12:12 PM UTC

jmah wrote: post #143

msellout wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't take legal action to protect your copyright / trademark, you will lose it. That's part of why big companies are such jerks all the time. If they weren't, they'd be out of luck when it really mattered. Edit: whoops, should have read the other replies first.

You don't lose your copyright if you don't take legal action to protect it.

Indeed, but it does work like that for trademarks.