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Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port

go.theregister.com·Brandon Vigliarolo·28 days ago
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Notepad++ remains a Windows-only app, at least under that name. The beloved developer-focused, open-source text editor recently was ported to macOS by a third party. However, developer Don Ho wants to be perfectly clear that, no matter how convincing the new project might look, it's not official.  It was mid April when the aptly-named Notepad++ for Mac started getting noticed, and at first glance one could be forgiven for thinking that this was an official release. Its website [cached copy] had the familiar wonky-eyed chameleon logo associated with the text editor and a near identical domain name to the original (with only the word "-mac" appended before the top-level domain).  This vulture, admittedly, even briefly thought the same when he spotted the site recently. "Notepad++ is now natively available for macOS," a cached version of the site from April 27 opens with. "No Wine, no emulation.…

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