To all the unscrupulous webmasters and LLC’s out there:

The lesson is that your brand is of no use before public opinion on the internet.
On the internet, once a thief, always a thief. Don’t steal and expect to get away with it. It will come back to haunt you. Ignore at your own risk.
If you find something cool and want to copy, copy the concept, that is allowed in software.
Give credit where it is due. Link back correctly where required.

Kudos to the Proggit community. This is a much-needed show of power for a good cause.

and so on

hmm…

If it’s any consolation, I only heard of this site because of this post. I used to read TDWTF religiously when it first started, but it’s gone down hill since. I still read it, I guess mostly out of habit, but I’m not sure it’s got much life left.

I would say you’d be better off pursuing this, as it’ll get you more readers, even if you don’t win any legal settlement.

Just wanted to say, as an attorney and legal historian, that there is such a thing as common law trademark. Trademarks were protected by common law long before trademark statutes were enacted. One need not register a mark or phrase to have a legally protectible interest therein. It just needs to be unique, and based on a simple, seat of the pants google search I just did, it looks like it is. I’m not saying common law trademark protection is as strong as statutory, or that Phil wouldn’t have been wiser to register Programming Praxix, I’m just saying his claim of trademark is not invalid just because he didn’t register it. So all of you amateur attorneys out there need to back off a bit and rethink this thing.

Hopefuly you’ll be less clueless next time something like this happen.