This may be contrasted with patents, which never loose their strength, whatever the holder does or does not to protect them. You may get a patent, let everybody offend for 15 years, and then begin to whirl your axe and reclaim for retroactive damages. Offenders do not get stronger to defend themselves, with time.
An initial greeting might, for example, invite the person to become a pretester, and might explain how to do so. Some dedicated pretesters of today started with a minor contribution.
Full names usually never change. This happened only once to our knowledge, when Michael Innis Bushnell became Thomas Bushnell.
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