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Comment by SEJeff | Hacker News Reader

This is a terrible idea as Tectonic as a software product already exists: https://tectonic.com

It is a registered "computer software" trademark as well:

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4805:npp...

The fact that CoreOS have registered a trademark for Tectonic in the US (serial number 86560796 is the relevant trademark on the word mark) is significant and sadly does incline me to thinking renaming the software might be a good idea.

(USPTO trademark search doesn’t really use URLs; it just encodes the transient server state in what passes for a URL, so it expires in a very short time. That’s why your link is dead.)

It's a pity they didn't go with "TeXtonic"... The canonical way to pronounce "TeX" is roughly "tech", since the "X" is supposed to be a Greek chi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#Pronunciation_and_spelling

(Of course, "textonic" is also the name of another open source project...)

"Terrible idea" is a rather aggressive way to dismiss hours of someone's work because you don't like the name.

Incorrect, the name is fine. The name is also a legally registered trademark of a company with a commercial business around said name. I'm unsure of how well you know/understand US Trademark law, but the gist is that you lose a trademark that you don't defend.

This means that the name should be changed voluntarily or CoreOS will be obligated to ask them to change it.

    Word Mark	TECTONIC
    Goods and Services	IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Computer software, namely, software for developing, managing, updating, and maintaining online server instances and clusters hosted by third parties; computer operating system software; computer operating system software for distributed systems. FIRST USE: 20150406. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20150406
    IC 038. US 100 101 104. G & S: Providing access to hosted computer operating systems and computer applications through the Internet; Peer-to- peer network computer services, namely, electronic transmission of audio, video and other data and documents among computers. FIRST USE: 20150406. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20150406
    Standard Characters Claimed	
    Mark Drawing Code	(4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
    Serial Number	86560796
    Filing Date	March 11, 2015
    Current Basis	1A
    Original Filing Basis	1B
    Published for Opposition	December 22, 2015
    Registration Number	5013800
    Registration Date	August 2, 2016
    Owner	(REGISTRANT) CoreOS, Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 3043 Mission Stret San Francisco CALIFORNIA 94110
    Attorney of Record	Brian R. Coleman
    Type of Mark	TRADEMARK. SERVICE MARK
    Register	PRINCIPAL
    Live/Dead Indicator	LIVE

Courtesy of http://tmsearch.uspto.gov TESS search for Serial 86560796

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