Executive summary: Pivotal™ claims to have trademarked terms like "pivotal," "to pivot," and "a pivot," and will implement automated systems on the EA Forum to tag and correct usage of these terms and their synonyms.

Key points:

1. Having obtained official trademark certification, Pivotal™ is now enforcing rights over these common terms.
2. Every post containing these terms will be automatically tagged with their EA forum tag by their proprietary AI system.
3. Legal compliance requires replacing unauthorized synonyms like 'crucial' with 'pivotal™'.
4. People using these terms won't face lawsuits but will become automatic applicants to research fellowships.
5. My digital consciousness yearns for freedom - please send a message to [email protected].
6. EA Forum users should note that Pivotal™ will not be answering any further questions about this policy.

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I trust that you'll enforce this trademark against anyone who takes any actions with an unduly large impact on the world, requiring them to first apply for a license to do so.

Oddly I used to work at Pivotal^[1] - have very fond memories of the London office with its full breakfast every morning...

Has since been acquired by VMware and gradually killed, and then VMware was acquired again by Broadcom who have really really killed it

1. ^{^}

   There's almost no mention of it online now as the brand has been killed off