Groupon Tried To Take GNOME's Name & Failed

grommeleur 11/11/2014

#GNOME starts campaign to protect its #trademarks
▻http://www.gnome.org/news/2014/11/gnome-starts-campaign-to-protect-its-trademarks

GNOME has launched a campaign to raise funds for protecting the GNOME trademarks.
Recently, #Groupon launched Gnome, a tablet-based point of sale (POS) system that Groupon describes as a “platform” and an “operating system”.
The GNOME Foundation is concerned and sees their long-established mark for Free Software, GNOME, endangered. The GNOME Foundation asks for ideological and monetary support to cover the costs of opposing the marks Groupon applied to register, which were estimated to be around 80,000 USD.

▻http://www.gnome.org/groupon

grommeleur

grommeleur @grommeleur 12/11/2014

Et une brillante manœuvre de marche arrière :
After additional conversations with the open source community and the Gnome Foundation, we have decided to abandon our pending trademark applications for “Gnome.” We will choose a new name for our product going forward.
▻https://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/gnome-update
Ils auraient pu pas prendre cette décision avant de se faire allumer ?
#kisonkon

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geneghys @geneghys 12/11/2014

#ékomen

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grommeleur @grommeleur 12/11/2014

via linuxfr :
Groupon Tried To Take GNOME’s Name & Failed
▻http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/11/11/groupon.html
However, please don’t misread this situation: Groupon didn’t “do something nice just because GF asked them to”, as the Groupon press people are no doubt at this moment feeding the tech press for tomorrow’s news cycle. The real story is: “Groupon stonewalled, wasting limited resources of a small non-profit for months, and gave up only when the non-profit politically outflanked them”.

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