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X now treats the term cisgender as a slur
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Funny, I think the same about X.
X.Org should be pissed.
I was really thinking they were going to challenge Musk since it’s not only their name, but he chose practically the same logo.
And I'm only, like, 98% joking about it also being the day I saw a headline on Lemmy about Wayland use overtaking X11.
I mean, honesty, there has to be some legally standing harm having been done or be possible. By a fucking billionaire tech ~~mogul~~ guy to a foundational, open, and free part of the tech ecosystem who also relies on fundraising.
Edit: on the other hand I’m waiting to be pounded by a reply about the logo being open source. Which it is. But you know ethics and tech and stuff.
It might not be worth challenging them, by the time it gets anywhere the current business will be gone. They always had little to no hope of paying off the $13bn loan Musk saddled the business with, now the business is worth less than the loan. Musk knows this, which is why he's trialling all sorts of dodgy shit on the platform, such as this and also the API charges.
Jesus, that's really fucking blatant, wow
It's just the generic unicode character, they wouldn't have a case.
I've said for some time now that as long as he allows deadnaming on his site, I'm going to deadname his site.