Where she went wrong was in contacting ARM to try to get it resolved. The smart thing to do would have been to politely reply to the C&D and refer the lawyers to her contacts at ARM, CCing it to the people she worked with there.
"I wrote my thesis about Arm security features and exploit mitigations for Arm's internal use, [have] given internal presentations, keynoted their conference, advocated for them, visited them at their HQ in Cambridge – all without compensation because I wanted this to be a mutually beneficial relationship instead of a gig."
When are engineers going to learn that corporate entities have no more capacity for friendship than a scorpion? They are run as and attract people interested in the mindless accumulation of more capital. You can have warm personal relationship with individual people at a company, but unless they are the top executives or largest shareholders those warm personal relationships don't mean anything compared to a spreadsheet. The corporate officers are not your pals.
People are downvoting the parent comment here, but it's correct. If you're going to name your domain after a commercial product in some way and you are all buddy-buddy with the people that make the product, get it in writing instead of relying on good vibes.
"I wrote my thesis about Arm security features and exploit mitigations for Arm's internal use, [have] given internal presentations, keynoted their conference, advocated for them, visited them at their HQ in Cambridge – all without compensation because I wanted this to be a mutually beneficial relationship instead of a gig."
When are engineers going to learn that corporate entities have no more capacity for friendship than a scorpion? They are run as and attract people interested in the mindless accumulation of more capital. You can have warm personal relationship with individual people at a company, but unless they are the top executives or largest shareholders those warm personal relationships don't mean anything compared to a spreadsheet. The corporate officers are not your pals.
People are downvoting the parent comment here, but it's correct. If you're going to name your domain after a commercial product in some way and you are all buddy-buddy with the people that make the product, get it in writing instead of relying on good vibes.