<story><title>Facebook Stole Our Name and Livelihood</title><url>https://meta.company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnu8</author><text>All I&amp;#x27;m hearing is that Facebook is entitled to a name someone else was already using because they are a wealthy and successful company and I am not convinced.</text></item><item><author>filoleg</author><text>How does it change anything? If I understand it correctly, they are a company with no existing product, and yet Facebook somehow stole their name and livelihood?&lt;p&gt;Stealing name implies that the company previously had some value attached to that name, such as recognition or a product. So far they have neither. I understand that it is unfortunate it happened to them, but given that the company doesn&amp;#x27;t even have a product launched yet, changing the name to something else shouldn&amp;#x27;t cause much trouble.&lt;p&gt;But on the bright side, at least now they have an excuse ready in case their company flops. And a lot of people who could sympathize with them too, because &amp;quot;facebook bad&amp;quot;. Media loves this stuff, because it prints clicks and views like hotcakes.</text></item><item><author>pietrovismara</author><text>Read again:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; One more thing: Our new product launch just got delayed because of Facebook. We must deal with these matters. In the coming weeks, we will make an announcement earlier than we expected. We promise it will be good. Stay tuned.</text></item><item><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>I was hoping to click through to see what they’re talking about, but apparently this letter is the entire company.&lt;p&gt;It reads to me like they were parking on the name and FB got there first (with regards to actually &lt;i&gt;using&lt;/i&gt; the name). And we should care why? “Stole our name and livelihood” is ridiculous here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>filoleg</author><text>The argument isn&amp;#x27;t about whether FB is entitled to the name. FB might not be entitled to that name, and I am not saying they are.&lt;p&gt;All I am saying is that the claim of Meta (non-FB one) about their &amp;quot;name and livelihood being stolen&amp;quot; is ridiculous and difficult to take at face value, given they have no product and no name-recognition.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook Stole Our Name and Livelihood</title><url>https://meta.company/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gnu8</author><text>All I&amp;#x27;m hearing is that Facebook is entitled to a name someone else was already using because they are a wealthy and successful company and I am not convinced.</text></item><item><author>filoleg</author><text>How does it change anything? If I understand it correctly, they are a company with no existing product, and yet Facebook somehow stole their name and livelihood?&lt;p&gt;Stealing name implies that the company previously had some value attached to that name, such as recognition or a product. So far they have neither. I understand that it is unfortunate it happened to them, but given that the company doesn&amp;#x27;t even have a product launched yet, changing the name to something else shouldn&amp;#x27;t cause much trouble.&lt;p&gt;But on the bright side, at least now they have an excuse ready in case their company flops. And a lot of people who could sympathize with them too, because &amp;quot;facebook bad&amp;quot;. Media loves this stuff, because it prints clicks and views like hotcakes.</text></item><item><author>pietrovismara</author><text>Read again:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; One more thing: Our new product launch just got delayed because of Facebook. We must deal with these matters. In the coming weeks, we will make an announcement earlier than we expected. We promise it will be good. Stay tuned.</text></item><item><author>6gvONxR4sf7o</author><text>I was hoping to click through to see what they’re talking about, but apparently this letter is the entire company.&lt;p&gt;It reads to me like they were parking on the name and FB got there first (with regards to actually &lt;i&gt;using&lt;/i&gt; the name). And we should care why? “Stole our name and livelihood” is ridiculous here.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>marcinzm</author><text>Using in what way? Having a domain, no trademark and no product doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you&amp;#x27;re using it in any real way.</text></comment>