Yeah, I still think it should be heard. I think the decision may be off, and it probably should have stopped at the CA but if it was granted permission to appeal go right ahead.

Most of the issues there I think are due to massive underfunding, cuts and bad management. Or similar issues in other adjacent sectors, like prison management, cps and policing.

I don’t think because they’ve been pushed into that situation they should just stop doing they’re normal functions for other areas of law. Trademarks out of all IP I think are nessisary both from a business and consumer protection prespective. And the courts cannot decided weather to hear a case or not based on who brought it, lobbyers or no. Although yes the decision I’m not keen on and it probably should have been decided earlier.

If they want to use milk in trademarks there should be a change to the legislation on what trademarks are prohibited and what ‘milk’ as a designation mean. It doesn’t prevent people calling it milk just blocked the use of the trademark, notes how trademark law interprets milk as a designation and how the trademark in question is interpreted.

Yeah I can agree with a lot of that, honestly 2008 & so much since has made it pretty clear money’s the priority(specific people’s money). Well before that really with thatcher’s bloody privatising spree, selling off everything.

I just don’t think the courts are to blame, parliament & government are to blame for that. And by extension the money lobbying all that, the people who say the problem is immigrants not money.

a question we’re thinking about for a second time?!

I’m unfortunately gonna make it worse for you here, its probably 4 times. The supreme court, court of appeals, the high court and the IPO itself. You can read more on the case here.

Honestly brexit fucked up this since we’re duplicating work now, previously it’d be the EUIPO not the UKIPO doing this. I remember there being talk of creating a merged system even after bexit but no idea what became of that. They need to fix it up at some point, but either way the courts gonna be spending time doing things like this.

yeah, it feels kinda petty on behalf of the dairy people tbh

they’d just hear the case, not investigate. Plus it’d have to go through the lower courts first and some of that might just be a inquiry before convictions sadly :(

I guess there is a massive backlog of cases, but I think it’s fair to hear this one.

That makes more sense. I interpreted your ‘my country’ more generally… like actions of government or something co-ordinated.

Still, the supreme court just heard and decided the case. Nor is it a consious decision to do this rather than deal with all the other stuff. I guess they could have refused permission to appeal earlier, but I don’t think whatever else going on is a consideration. They’d just look at the case itself. And I think that’s the best way about it.

That said, I’m not sure I agree with it either, but I haven’t read it in full. Just the guardian article.

In fairness, its a supreme court ruling after a dairy uk(3rd party) objected to a trademark and its been going on for awhile. So it’s not like it was specifically put on the agender by any government or authority.

If you want something that looks different you wanna find a different desktop environment(DE), most of them are avalible on most distros. I’d pick a distro then a DE that they offer. You could try these DEs you haven’t already tested:

• Cosmic, think tilling + gnome-like interface. It softens the learning curve for a tilling WM a lot if you’ve got other options. Fedora has a spin with this in if you liked fedora.
• Budgie but can be quite similar to others
• MXLinux with Fluxbox could be an interesting choice, its usually used on low end devices but its pretty snappy on anything else. Or Fluxbox on any other distro but MX is the only thing I can think of with it as an install option.
• If you don’t mind something older, you could look at CDE or NsCDE, although I can’t remember how involved the install process is.

Other than that, your options for non-tranditional desktop environments are probably just other tilling ones(i3, hyprland, ect) or scrolling(like niri). Or customising one of the others, KDE can be very flexible for that. You’ve gone through a lot of the main ones.

As for distros, there’s a lot, most will have the same set of desktop environments though. So, the same look and feel one you get past the install and package management etc…

If you don’t mind going outside linux land, haiku can be fun. Completely different OS though…

That ai banner does not inspire trust at all :( The actual content reads well & they link other articles though. Weird.

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