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Cisco nearly lost "Chromium" over the same thing.

"33. Google abandoned any trademark rights in Chromium software by failing to control the nature and quality of the open source software developed by others but at the same time permitting others to distribute the third party software under the Chromium mark".

The case was settled.




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