It's because they didn't want to spend the money to go to court. While convincing any normal person the two Ts are completely different takes less than a minute the judge will take months to be convinced, all the while you're burning cash to pay for his and your lawyer's coke habit.
GNU should've fought though, since they have some cash it's better to send a message of "we're crazy enough to blow 100k into a letter so don't fuck with us" than being known as an easy target. Cucking out only gets you bullied more.
GNU Receives Cease and Decist Over the Letter "T"
The proprietary software economy, perhaps
I, too, have this question, except it's directed towards this entire thread and its completely unrelated GNU antagonisms.
Read the actual content.
wow fuck da police. The epayment service dindu nuffin.
You don't know English, do you user?
Look at the two t's and tell me: Are those two in any way similar, aside from the fact that they are both t's?
It's an entirely different font in an entirely different color, and the rest of the logo is entirely different as well.
wew lad
You mean other than they are two giant Ts?
Ok now you look at this:
and tell me whether you think this guy actually believes this or is he just lying.
Free software is so much better though.
Medicine is a detriment to the witchcraft economy as a whole.