I get that, but suppose you start a package on NPM named "bronk". Sometime later someone starts a company with that name. Should you just be forced to give up your package name, just because people suddenly associate the name with the company?
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Not in my book. They asked him if he would rename his package, he replied sorry but I'm building a project with this name, and they replied that they were going to send lawyers to do takedowns if he would release his project. This would also rub me the wrong way. Also, the dev was already working on the package before the kik company ever came to NPM. Why would he have to give up on the name for his project?
Because Zeeland gets taken over by Germans in the summer, and OP seems to be German.
Old zeeland is still where it used to be. (I would make a joke about Germans here, but can't think of anything clever right now)
You haven't seen the results from the last Dutch election? If it's regional, the region is all of Europe.
No idea really.
Nothing fancy in being Dutch. I am Dutch indeed.
Mine's the Dutch word for salt. It's derived from a longer username I used to have, which was slang for a sexual act.
The dev could claim something like "prior art", or whatever the alternative is for software. Suppose I trademark the name "is-odd" for a company, should NPM now hand me the "is-odd" package name? This would surely break the internet in the same way is an this case.