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Why are Nodejitsu registering the npm trademark

by voidfiles on 2/27/14, 1:25 AM with 7 comments

• by iends on 2/27/14, 2:00 AM

  So Isaac Schlueter's new company, npm Inc, takes VC and then starts sending out legal threats immediately. nodejitsu decides to play that game and points out that it's been working on the npm trademark which, if granted, would likely force Isaac's new company to change it name.

  Am I understanding this all correctly?

  I can't see how any of this good for the node community, but then again I couldn't see how npm, Inc was good for the node community either.

• by ambirex on 2/27/14, 2:29 AM

  I can't help feel this was partly fueled by npm Inc asking Arnout Kazemier (Nodejitsu's Lead Software Engineer - https://www.nodejitsu.com/company/) to change the name of his package from npmjs to something else. (https://medium.com/p/271013ff33c5)

• by opendomain on 2/27/14, 2:15 AM

  While it makes me sad that this is happening, this actually makes me believe that Node must be valuable now that the sharks are coming out. The question is - will this harm the community or will it make it be stronger? Also - why is there not a similar lawsuit for "node" part of nodejitsu?

• by ulisesrmzroche on 2/27/14, 11:15 PM

  Mikeal wrote a response here: https://gist.github.com/mikeal/9242748.

  So much drama though, I can barely piece together what's going on.

• by Touche on 2/27/14, 1:32 AM

  Nodejitsu pulling an Oracle.