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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 Hairyfeet on Tuesday November 11 2014, @03:16PM
Nah a "piece" of shit would require it to be less streamlined and easy to break up, more like KDE 4. I'd say GNOME 3 is more of a squirt than a piece ;-)
As for TFA yet another example why tying "free as in freedom" to free as in beer is a fucking stupid idea, because without a good steady consistent source of capital it would probably be quite easy to bleed the small fry like GNOME to death with bullshit like the above. I'd say its pretty obvious that somebody at groupon has heard of GNOME and has not one single fuck to give, fully expecting to use their superior financial situation to crush the opposition...and sadly? That could easily work. There is a reason why obvious patent trolls make money, why companies get away with anticompetitive BS every day, and that is because a single court battle can cost insane amounts of money. That 80k might pay for the initial fight, but will it pay for the appeals and for the other patents I'm sure groupon will file? I'm guessing not and why I'd argue our entire legal system is a mess, those with large amounts of capital to spend simply get too much of an advantage.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday November 11 2014, @03:27PM
Considering the systemd hoopla these days, GNOME's tie-in to it, and the fact that Red Hat is backing GNOME, I kind of doubt they're just going to say, "Meh, let it die."
"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 Arik on Tuesday November 11 2014, @05:53PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?