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by dragonwriter 3624 days ago
> First, is there a single event in history where multimillion dollar trademark lost the protection that was paid for because there existed open-source hobby project with the same name?

No, because loss of trademarks from non-enforcement was well-established risk before "open source software" was a thing, so no trademark owner that cares fails to police against open source hobby projects with the same name in the same market.