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I had to bite the bullet on this one, not a bleeding heart, but if it helps keeps one wild animal from being poached I'm all for it. Hey, it's $2.00 for a worthy cause, just do it. You'll sleep bet...
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@DestroyISIS wrote:I had to bite the bullet on this one, not a bleeding heart, but if it helps keeps one wild animal from being poached I'm all for it. Hey, it's $2.00 for a worthy cause, just do it. You'll sleep better (ok maybe not 😊).
The World Wildlife Fund is something I will never ever support till the day I die. To me, WWF will ALWAYS be World Wrestling Federation. The World Wildlife Fund wasn't even in existence when the World Wrestling Federation was founded and had been using the term WWF for decades before the founding of the World Wildlife Fund. How they won the lawsuit forcing the World Wrestling Federation to give up their name is beyond beyond me.
It's not even a matter of me liking the World Wrestling Federation or not, it's the principle of right vs wrong and the World Wildlife Fund was wrong in this in my opinion regardless of what judgement they were given in a court of law.
Well a quick check of Wikipedia reveals that World Wildlife Fund was WWF since its inception in 1961. World Wide Wrestling Federation was WWWF (note the extra W) until a change to drop a W in 1979. Does a rose smell less sweet if it is not called a rose? Anyway, WWF the charity has my support ... thanks for the heads up DestroyISIS.
@dialediatoo wrote:Well a quick check of Wikipedia reveals that World Wildlife Fund was WWF since its inception in 1961. World Wide Wrestling Federation was WWWF (note the extra W) until a change to drop a W in 1979. Does a rose smell less sweet if it is not called a rose? Anyway, WWF the charity has my support ... thanks for the heads up DestroyISIS.
Symantics, The WWF or WWWF was founded in 1952. Dropping a W is insignificant. Besides..... To award the charity sole rights to an acronym is saying that no two companies can have a 3 word name that the first letters of all 3 words can match any other company. It's ludicrous. You can't, or shouldn't be able to, patent an acronym. Just an opinion. Besides, the real WWF (World Wrestling Federation) was operating under that name for 3 decades before it became an issue. If it were an issue, it should have been filed in 1979 not 2012.
Everyone is indeed entitled to their opinions but imho it's a shame to agree to disagree before an attempt to reach a common understanding of the facts is made. In any case, anyone interested in the wwf dispute, this 2010 article struck me as informative. This decades long dispute can be traced back to around the time that Titan sports applied to trademark WWF in 1989. 2012 seemed to be the year that it finally got resolved.
