Who’s downvoting this dude lol
What does the other Threads do? If it’s not social media they might be fine.
Sarmyth@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not happening. This came up in another thread, too. They aren’t competing in the same industry, so they don’t really have a basis to claim anything.
Sometimes people get confused and just see “software” in the description of things and just declare it “tech”. Therefore, same industry. But yeah, not related.
Who’s downvoting this dude lol
What does the other Threads do? If it’s not social media they might be fine.
People who read the article?
The British company trademarked Threads in 2012 for its intelligent messaging hub, which can store a company’s emails, tweets, and voice over internet protocol phone calls in a cloud database.
Why would I read the article when I could instead degrade the quality of public discourse because I’m lazy
The other threads is a diabolical site that lures in children, tracks their activity, tailors content to them with the aim of getting them addicted and then targets advertising toward them that is so incredibly honed as to be fail proof. So as Long as Facebook isn’t doing anything shitty like that, they should be fine.
Vorticity@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It seems to me that there might be room for confusion and maybe they are closely enough related to cause a problem.
“You can store your threads from Threads in Threads… Ummm… I mean, Threads Software Limited provides software that will let you store your threads from Threads…”
That said, I don’t know if Threads Software Limited is actively used or abandoned IP. If their IP is in active use, not abandoned, they could have a case. It’s likely a cash grab, though. They probably hope Facebook will just settle with them for a few million.