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I appreciate that you like the site and want to clone it, but it's extremely poor form (and extremely misleading) to give your clone the same name.

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Not sure how it's misleading if it's the same product.

But it is not the same product, because it is not run by the same person. That matters.

So every time a product is bought out by a different company they should have to change the name?

You're making my point for me - that's a legally approved transfer of assets. This is not.

Your claim was that the distinction is that it is run by a different person, not that it wasn't a "legally approved transfer of assets".

I regret using the word "person." luv too be nitpicked on HN

The better version of my argument is "the product is not the same because it was not appropriately transferred between operators."

Of course this is all squishy and grey, since I don't believe DataTau filed a trademark claim, but moving forward with an identically-named product is still poor taste.

It was an already existing product and we wanted to stick to it as much as possible!

I don't think this excuses the cloning.

If you wanted to keep the project running, the first step would be to speak with the real site's maintainer to develop a plan.

We did it. Got no answer in a month.

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