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0 pointsbdcravens8y ago0 comments

pretty sure the reasons they changed the name are still valid and outweigh what they'd gain

https://kodi.tv/article/xbmc-getting-new-name-introducing-ko...

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Mindless21128y ago· 2 in thread

So the main[1] reason they changed the name was because they "have never had any sort of legal control over the use of its name". Clearly, based on the issue at hand, the name change hasn't helped.

[1] I don't buy that they needed to change the name because "XBMC" didn't make sense anymore. "Kodi" is just as nonsensical as "XBMC", if not more so.

bdcravensOP8y ago

> Clearly, based on the issue at hand, the name change hasn't helped

They were only referring to ability to sue over misuse (say I make a KodiBox and sell it). Google omitting from auto-complete isn't relevant.

I think main reason wasn't that however, but was to prevent legal activity from Microsoft. (I suspect there were undisclosed related conversations)

Mindless21128y ago

> Google omitting from auto-complete isn't relevant.

I disagree. They wanted legal control of their name, yet now they have it and Google considers it a piracy search term. Microsoft speculation aside, they didn't gain anything because pirate-box makers don't care about legal action to begin with.

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