[kwlug-disc] Naming of apps, RE: Riot -> Element

[Jonathan Poole]

Reminds me of kik. Someone had some JavaScript library (if memory strikes correct,rarely does, I blame rum) and kik (a tech startup in Waterloo) had a legal
Team go and sick the meat hooks into some
Poor open source developer forcing him to rename his library wrecking havoc on the internet’s because even kik used the damn library and forcing some css page display issues defacing the internet’s. I had a chuckle but deep inside made me hate lawyers more than I do now. 

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> On Feb 2, 2021, at 7:21 PM, Hubert Chathi <hubert at uhoreg.ca> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 17:26:59 -0500, Mikalai Birukou via kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> said:
> 
>> Yesterday Paul enlightened me, at least, that Riot was renamed to
>> Element. Why?  Let's guess :) .
> 
> Element has a blog post about why it was renamed:
> https://element.io/blog/the-world-is-changing/  It lists a few different
> reasons, one of which is, yes, the negative connotations of the word
> (which was not the original intention).
> 
> Hubert
> (who works for Element)
> 
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