Slack ???
 

https://slack.com/ ???

"A messaging app for teams who put robots on Mars"

welp, guess not for me

It's even worse than you think:
https://slack.com/brand-guidelines
(emphasis mine)

FFS!

Looking at the DNS info of the website it is a startup company that has started in 2009, see this wikipage

edit) I obviously didn't read carefully enough. The company only named itself Slack in 2015 and the software isn't that old either.

It would be "very uncool" to register a domain containing the word slack.

Obviously, this is a not a courtesy they extend to anyone else, including the best known "slack" brand which pre-dates theirs by something like 22 years...

Just another illustration of the ultimately meaningless absurdity, lack of reciprocity and inherent lack of balance or fairness in all things perceived as "intellectual property".

In a world populated by human beings, as opposed to profit driven rules based automatons, all the bandwidth wasted on these pointless boundary marking exercises might be put to some creative use.

Abolish the concept in law of intellectual property and help make the world safe for human habitation.

slack is a generic word and thus can not be branded
same as "windows" or "banner"

What else would you expect when it only supports Mac, Windows, iOS and Android? https://slack.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

I think Microsoft would strongly disagree with that statement.

It is a bit more tricky, see for example this lawsuit where they tried to defend that Windows is a trademark and ended up settling to prevent loosing the trademark. As a result it still appears to be their trademark: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/legal...rks/en-us.aspx

they do

edit:
generic trademark, not word
my bad
mhm

Yeah, the "Windows" trademark is a bit of difficult one. If I were on the Jury I'd have found against Lindows in this case, but if Microsoft had been suing someone over using "windows" in a more generic way I'd have gone against them.

What concerns me about this outfit is they seem to be trying to lay claim to slack* in the same way Apple have made a landgrab on everything Apple*

Fortunately, Patrick has a registered trademark for "Slackware" and his logos, so he is protected against any attempt to take the name or domain from him. (Anyone remember the Linux trademark controversy back around 1996?)

Didn't I read some ages ago that Paris Hilton actually managed to TradeMark the phrase "That's hot" ? Crazy people and crazy laws and in the case of copyright they conveniently forget or ignore the concept of "passes into Public Domain". If such ideas had been in force continuously over the centuries there never would have been Public Libraries.

From the website:

"Connect all the tools you use to Slack and avoid all that constant switching between apps. Set up your integration so that you get all your notifications directly within Slackfrom support requests, code check-ins, and error logs to sales leadsall of them searchable in one central archive."

I'm still not 100 percent sure what it does... But then I don't use Twitter, Facebook, Hangouts, Google Drive, iCloud or any of the other services whose logos I don't recognise.

I like to use my computers & phones for productivity. :D

And what about Get Slack :D

Cheers