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by benatkin 499 days ago
Um, the author is clearly familiar enough with Wasm, but probably knows enough to know to avoid a company that tried to trademark WebAssembly.

> understandable concerns about the fact we, Wasmer, a VC-backed corporation, attempted to trademark the name of a non-profit organization, specifically WebAssembly

Acknowledgement of wrongdoing.

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I hadn't heard about this - terrible.
Read the whole blogpost that quote was taken from:

https://wasmer.io/posts/wasmer-and-trademarks-extended

I don't think this is as much of a smoking gun as it is made out to be.

Attention is all we need.
Just for defensive purposes obviously
"Mistakes teach us, forgiveness frees us" - ChatGPT (o3-mini)

https://wasmer.io/posts/wasmer-and-trademarks