two questions...

1) Joost's marks are registerd in #NED & #USA . I am in #CAN where nothing is registered (I am assuming so far since it isn't mentioned in the article). What if someone in Canada uses his trademarked items? Replace Canada with any other country outside #NED / #USA.

2) Can't I download WordPress, replace every place WordPress to let's say JeffTowel and then the wp- folders (wp-admin) to jt- and the standard prefix to be jt_ instead of wp_

TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, not that I would do it.

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