Thoughts on Bold browser? - formerly Braver

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Thanks @tyz and @TryNinja for the heads up. The OP has been updated.

Name change was bound to happen but I didn't expect a legal threat this quick

[stomachgrowls]

Thanks @tyz and @TryNinja for the heads up. The OP has been updated.

Name change was bound to happen but I didn't expect a legal threat this quick

At first i thought this was just a some sort of joke when i do read up that changed name of Brave browser and in talks about that legal threat then im sure that they didnt anticipate for it to be so quick. 

Boldbrowser? What a shitty name and also who would be the one to trust up this one again? Once you have done something (deceiving users) that will surely taint into their name no matter how many
times they would plan to change.

[TryNinja]

At first i thought this was just a some sort of joke when i do read up that changed name of Brave browser and in talks about that legal threat then im sure that they didnt anticipate for it to be so quick.  

Boldbrowser? What a shitty name and also who would be the one to trust up this one again? Once you have done something (deceiving users) that will surely taint into their name no matter how many
times they would plan to change.

Brave didn't change their name. A independent fork of them did (Braver -> Bold) because the original Brave (who deceived their users) supposidely threatened them.

The name kinda makes sense since Bold sounds like a synonym of the adjective "brave".

[tyz]

Thanks @tyz and @TryNinja for the heads up. The OP has been updated.

Name change was bound to happen but I didn't expect a legal threat this quick

Boldbrowser?

Finding a good browser name these days is difficult because you easily get legal issues if it sounds similar to existing ones. And if you take a short time to research you'll find out that there is a ton of browsers out there, even though the most are not well known. Bold Browser is not the best name but it derives in some way from Brave(r), so it is a good alternative name.

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Finding a good browser name these days is difficult because you easily get legal issues if it sounds similar to existing ones.

No. This move by Brave to threaten legal action against Braver/Bold is completely ridiculous, and goes against the very nature of free and open source software. Did Firefox threaten Waterfox? Did Chrome threaten Ungoogled Chromium? Did uBlock threaten uBlock Origin? Did KeePass threaten KeePassX or KeePassXC? Did Bitcoin threaten Bitcoin Cash?

The whole point of free and open source software is that anyone can fork it and change/improve your code, especially if your project has started to sell out on its core principles and sell out its users in return for making profit, just as Brave has done. This recent legal action is the most recent in a long line of very questionable decisions from the Brave team.

[tyz]

No. This move by Brave to threaten legal action against Braver/Bold is completely ridiculous, and goes against the very nature of free and open source software. Did Firefox threaten Waterfox? Did Chrome threaten Ungoogled Chromium? Did uBlock threaten uBlock Origin? Did KeePass threaten KeePassX or KeePassXC? Did Bitcoin threaten Bitcoin Cash?

Basically you are right. Brave Browser is released completely under Mozilla Public License and GNU Lesser General Public License. So starting from this point it is nonsense to threaten forks with legal actions. My guess is rather that they want to prevent the browser name from being associated with the company name (Brave Software Inc). I am sure Mozilla company would have considered legal actions, too, if there would be a Firefox fork which is named Nozilla Firefix Browser