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Why not? If you made a backup product called "Windows Backup" (or more relevant to this example, a collaboration product for Microsoft Office called "Office Duck"), Microsoft will definitely go after you for trademark infringement. Why should it be any different for an open source project with a registered trademark?



What about GitHub and GitLab?


AFAIK they started using those names before the git trademark was registered




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