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GNOME vs. Groupon

posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 11 2014, @12:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-bet-that-the-money-wins dept.

jcd writes:

The GNOME Project is currently grappling with Groupon, which has registered a series of new "GNOME" trademarks in response to GNOME's request that Groupon rename its new POS system.

From the gnome.org announcement:

"Recently Groupon announced a product with the same product name as GNOME. Groupon’s product is a tablet based point of sale “operating system for merchants to run their entire operation." The GNOME community was shocked that Groupon would use our mark for a product so closely related to the GNOME desktop and technology. It was almost inconceivable to us that Groupon, with over $2.5 billion in annual revenue, a full legal team and a huge engineering staff would not have heard of the GNOME project, found our trademark registration using a casual search, or even found our website, but we nevertheless got in touch with them and asked them to pick another name. Not only did Groupon refuse, but it has now filed even more trademark applications."

GNOME claims that it will need $80,000 to challenge ten of the new trademarks that Groupon has filed.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 11 2014, @02:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 11 2014, @02:31PM (#114834)

    Translated: "No, they should only spend money on projects I care about"

    You're a marvellous human being, you...

  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday November 11 2014, @03:25PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday November 11 2014, @03:25PM (#114857)

    GNOME is a Red Hat project. Red Hat has a shitload of employees; they can afford their own damn lawyers.

    --
    "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"

    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday November 11 2014, @04:09PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Tuesday November 11 2014, @04:09PM (#114874) Homepage

      Red Hat fucking suck. It is thanks to them that the status quo of the shit buggy dependency-hell that is Desktop Linux is maintained to this day.

      Hgglglglglgllaaaauuuuuughaghuaghauwawaa!

      • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday November 11 2014, @05:09PM

        by tangomargarine (667) on Tuesday November 11 2014, @05:09PM (#114898)

        Hgglglglglgllaaaauuuuuughaghuaghauwawaa!

        Not sure if summoning Cthulhu is the best response to this, but what the hell--I'm game.

        --
        "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"

        • (Score: 2) by mmcmonster on Tuesday November 11 2014, @05:51PM

          by mmcmonster (401) on Tuesday November 11 2014, @05:51PM (#114918)

          If they really want to have fun, they should see if they can get IBM to donate a few lawyers. I hear they've been bored since annihilating SCO.