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Comment by jackweirdy | Hacker News Reader

They just posted a response: https://twitter.com/Raspberry_Pi/status/1318494942478635009

The response was posted as an image containing text, so here it is in text form for screen readers or text mode only browsers.

STATEMENT FROM PHILIP COLLIGAN ON RASPBERRY PI TRADEMARKS

Yesterday we sent a letter to a member of the Raspberry Pi community as part of our efforts to protect the Raspberry Pi trademark that was inconsistent with our values as a community organisation. We got it wrong and we have apologised to the valued community member who got the letter. We are undertaking a review of how we protect our trademark to make sure that this doesn’t happen again.

The letter was sent automatically to a small number of individuals responsible for social media accounts and websites that were identified by external legal advisers as possibly infringing our trademarks. It should never have been sent.

It is important that we take action to protect the Raspberry Pi trademarks, not least to protect the public from bad actors who deliberately misuse our brands to sell poor quality, rip off products.

We want to do that in a way that doesn’t undermine the use of the Raspberry Pi brands and trademarks by members of the fantastic Raspberry Pi community who share our educational mission and who do so much to bring it to life everyday.

If you have a question or concern about your use of the Raspberry Pi brand or trademarks, please get in touch with us at trademarks@raspberrypi.org.

Thanks for textifying this. I am a screen reader user, so your effort is very much appreciated.

I don't use a screen reader and it drives me mad seeing text posted as an image. To me it just helps prove that the whole idea of arbitrary character limits is incredibly stupid. Unfortunately the short content is good for getting people lots of quick dopamine hits which is great for both Twitter and all the brands and celebrities that post there.

I deleted my Twitter account roughly 3 years ago. That platform never really got me going.

That's amazing. I can't imagine the experience you must have reading through HN comments with a screen reader. Love to hear about it.

For the most part, I actually use Lynx to read HN. So it should be relatively easy for you to see how that feels. For added spice, you can install a screen reader like Orca and activate the "virtual braille viewer". That will give you one line of text, usually 40 or 80 characters long. The screen reader will largely follow the terminal cursor. As long as you are just editing text, that is all you need. For reading things other then around the cursor, you basically have a few buttons to move the braille display "window" around on the screen.

> The letter was sent automatically to a small number of individuals responsible for social media accounts and websites that were identified by external legal advisers as possibly infringing our trademarks.

Does that happen often, automatic legal notices?

Typical..

  while (1) { 
    company_does_something_stupid();
    gets_caught();
    apologize();
    makes_promises();
    if (bankrupt)
        break;
  }

Also:

bankrupt = !is_promises_kept() || is_shitty_product();

> The letter was sent automatically

translates to: not really our fault but...

Robots handling IP seems to have a lot of ugly consequences.

or AI or ML :)

Yes. 'Automatically' and 'small number' doesn't look like they fit well together in the same sentence.

    > The letter was sent automatically
    (...)
    > that were identified by external legal advisers

It's not even the typical "it was automatic" excuse... the only automation here seems to be just a target list, they just used the word "automatic" to leverage their PR.

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