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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.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday November 11 2014, @02:36PM
I am pretty sure that AC you are responding to made an attempt at humor, not fact.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 11 2014, @04:03PM
(Different AC here)
On the net, it's sometimes hard to distinguished failed humour from actual stupidity.