I kinda hate it when companies steal existing common terms (alphabet, apple, windows, meta); it’s a unilateral usurpation of everyone’s speech, and (to some degree) a violation of the their minds.
You absolutely can, but trademarks need to be domain-specific. And the social media platform and the window system don’t have much overlap in their respective domains.
Oops, I guess all my math problems infringe a trademark. There are simply way too many things named X. Also, the X.org foundation don’t have as much money as Twitter, which makes any fight a lost cause.
It is very unlikely there is customer confusion over the matter. Though both companies are in tech, they are in wildly different branches of tech. I don’t think X.org has a valid trademark complaint in this case.
When X.com eventually gets around to making its own window system, they may be in legal trouble. Perhaps the resulting lawsuit can raise enough money to get X.org development going again.
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