Timeline for How to refer to Stack Exchange 'the company' after its rename to Stack Overflow?
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| Jan 24, 2017 at 14:33 | comment | added | user315433 | @Stijn Yes, it is still that. This was raised on Meta before, and answered by employees in the sense that Stack Overflow is what they prefer to be called, while the legal name stays what it is. Rebranding, not renaming. Source | |
| Jan 24, 2017 at 14:08 | comment | added | Pollyanna | @Stijn I suspect they don't really care enough to do a site wide search for the old name and replace it everywhere. The blog post seems pretty clear. However, they haven't registered Stack Overflow, Inc as a delaware or new york corporation. They have Stack Exchange, Inc, and Stack Overflow, LLC as delaware corporations, and they have a listing on the new york corporate entity list as a delaware corporation with DBAs of Stack Exchange, Inc, and Stack Overflow Internet Services, Inc. So I share your confusion, there doesn't seem to be any single good citable reference for the company name. | |
| Jan 24, 2017 at 12:47 | comment | added | Stijn | @AdamDavis that's exactly why I'm asking :) the /legal page also uses SE Inc | |
| Jan 24, 2017 at 12:34 | comment | added | Pollyanna | @Stijn it's murky at the moment because they're still using stack exchange Inc on their main homepage footer. stackexchange.com I'm pretty sure the legal name of he company changed to stack overflow Inc, but who knows. | |
| Jan 24, 2017 at 9:29 | comment | added | Stijn | @DavidFullerton Is the official legal name still Stack Exchange Inc? | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 17:49 | comment | added | Pollyanna | @TimPost Well if you'd've been using pencil all these years, changing the name wouldn't've been such a big deal. | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 16:08 | comment | added | user50049 | Wait, we used plenty of ink when we signed all of these things. Why do we still need inc? | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 13:40 | comment | added | David Fullerton | I think this is right. You can just say "Stack Overflow" most of the time, because in context it'll be clear what you mean. In cases where it's unclear, just say "Stack Overflow Inc" to clarify that you mean the company, same way we occasionally said "Stack Exchange Inc" to distinguish it from the network. | |
| Sep 16, 2015 at 11:51 | history | answered | Pollyanna | CC BY-SA 3.0 |