Hi,
Can you provide a response to this? Is this true, what he's saying?
https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/misc/gnome-foundation-and-groupon-product-names/
I don't understand why if they have been in talks would they go ahead
and announce it using the disputed trademark.
~m
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 3:59 AM, Tobias Mueller <mue...@cryptobitch.de>
wrote:
GNOME has launched a campaign¹ to raise funds for protecting the
GNOME trademarks.
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
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