Re: Synchronet?
  By: HusTler to echicken on Sat Aug 03 2019 18:07:35

 Hu> Thanks for the links. I think I'll just send them an email and give them
 Hu> my opinion without all the legal mumbo jumbo. At the very least it's

How embarrassing that would be for all of us.  Maybe you should leave actions
like that up to DM?

 Hu> disrespecful to use a pre-exisiting name. Years ago I tried to register a

The one in Buffalo is just one of many Synchronets.  They were founded in 1998.
  It's entirely possible
that at the time, they could not as quickly or easily find out that
"Synchronet" was in use elsewhere or
belonged to a (by then defunct?) company in California.  Even if they knew it
was the name of a BBS
package, they might have felt it sufficiently different from their area of
business that there should be
no confusion.

Next up you've got SynchroNet of synchronet.com, and I guarantee you that they
don't give a shit about
some open source BBS package already having the name.  Or they might care
enough to tell *us* to stop
using it.

Of course there's also http://synchronet.co/, purveyors of fine shipping
container solutions.

Or this networking company: http://www.synchronet.org/

Or this supply chain thing: https://www.synchronet.eu/

I wonder if all of these groups are mad at each other for poaching the name.

 Hu> business name for tax purposes and because it was similar to an existing
 Hu> business I was asked not to use it. I have no idea what the "rules" are on
 Hu> the world wide web. Thanks for your reply. 

The web and the internet at large are not a wild west, and activities there are
 generally subject to the
same rules as anywhere else.

Consider if your attempt to use that name hadn't been rejected, you'd had
letterhead, business cards,
signage printed up, bought a domain, built up some recognition, and maybe been
in business for 20+ years.
 Then some guy comes along and tells you that you should change your company
name because it overlaps
with something in their esoteric hobby.  Your reaction would be, what, "Okay,
no problem, I'll change my
company's name"?

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