[styfle]

This is the first I’ve heard of Substack.

I thought I recognized that name and then I remembered....there’s a developer[0] who has written many packages on npm[1] with the same name: substack

I’ll have to check this out just because of the name :)

[0]: https://github.com/substack

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/~substack

[cjbest]

Just to avoid any confusion: we are not affiliated with James Halliday, the developer who uses the Github/Twitter handle substack.

(Though now that I look at it, I definitely respect his work, especially minimist)

[jeswin]

> especially minimist

Substack also wrote browserify, which changed the way people write JavaScript.

[slikts]

Are you going to add this disclaimer to everything you do now, or is the idea to just take the name over with your capital? It's their name that they've established by being a prolific, well-respected developer; it was also the only search result for it before you appeared, because it's a unique name without an another established meaning. There's no explanation for why you'd choose it outside of not doing due dilligence or just lack of morals.

[eli]

That's ridiculous. A new platform for journalism can't share a name with a popular Node developer? Even actual trademarks only apply across a category of similar products.

[mirimir]

So, for example, "Ruby fibers" are not chromium-doped alumina abrasives. And indeed, one might see both on HN :)

[slikts]

You jump to arguing legality, but morality comes before that, or should anyway, particularly because it's a company vs an individual.

[abowlofpetunias]

That is some pretty extreme jumping to conclusions...

[slikts]

Yet you don't mention an alternative explanation.

[tobr]

This was confusing, I thought this was an AMA with James Halliday.