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SoftTalker
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Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
Trademarks have to actually be used to remain enforceable, I think. Not sure MS could claim Clippy after all this time, not that they might not try.
mook
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Three fact that it's not a product anymore doesn't mean it's unused; a quick search says they at a minimum used it in 2021:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2021/07/0...
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SoftTalker
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Wow, had no idea. Like a bad penny.
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shrinks99
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Microsoft uses Clippy for the paperclip emoji in the Fluent Emoji set. The trademark is why the open source version of Fluent Emoji doesn't use Clippy's likeness.
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