Hi,
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Tobias Mueller <mue...@cryptobitch.de> wrote: > GNOME has launched a campaign¹ to raise funds for protecting the GNOME > trademarks. > And I have started this: http://ubuntugnome.org/defend-gnome-campaign/ and: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2014-November/msg00017.html I have contacted those people: https://plus.google.com/u/0/111024543668500323770/posts/KFN5gjcKkU9 Webupd8 OMG Ubuntu ZDNet and I will do my best to contact more people I know and spread the word further ... > > Recently, Groupon launched Gnome², 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. > > “I cannot believe Groupon was not aware of GNOME, the Free Software desktop > environment and application suite, when it chose the name. Especially as > they > claim to be ‘fueled by open source‘³,” said Tobias Mueller, one of the > directors > of the GNOME Foundation. > > “We will not give up and fight their use of our name which we have > established > over the last 17 years to provide users all over the world with high > quality > Free Software solutions.” > > “Millions of people who use GNU/Linux based systems use GNOME or > GNOME-related > technologies, such as GLib or GTK+. We must not let a > billion-dollar-company > take the well-established name of one of the biggest Free Software > communities,” > Tobias added. “If you want to help GNOME defend its trademark and promote > Free > Software, visit the campaign’s page¹, share the link, and let Groupon know > that > they behaved terribly”. > > GNOME also made a press contact⁴ available for further questions or > interviews. > > > 1: http://www.gnome.org/groupon/ > 2: http://investor.groupon.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=848707 > 3: > https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/open-source/sharing-is-caring-open-source-at-groupon/ > 4: mailto:grou...@gnome.org > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > foundation-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > I am sure we will win this one, no doubt about that. Thanks and if there is anything I and/or Ubuntu GNOME Community could do, kindly let us know! -- Best Regards, Ali/amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad> *Remember: *"All of us are smarter than any one of us." Ubuntu GNOME OneStopPage <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/OneStopPage> http://torios.org - StartUbuntu <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StartUbuntu> - http://amjjawad.net <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGNOME/GetUbuntuGNOME>
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