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Hands off my trademark! Notepad++ dev threatens legal action against macOS port
It's not the fork that's the problem, it's the attempt to make it look official, says original Notepad++ dev Don Ho
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).
