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After the uproar on the internet covered here yesterday, Groupon appears to be backing down on its Gnome trademarks, and says it will choose a new name going forward.
https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/misc/gnome-foundation-and-groupon-product-names/#updated
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Update: Groupon Gives Up 'Gnome' Trademark
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God save us from a bad neighbor and a beginner on the fiddle.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Wednesday November 12 2014, @04:18PM
Even though I'm too disgusted with this stuff to really care one way or another and just generally try to stay away from it for sake of sanity. You shouldn't dismiss and exaggerate pretty severe issues as conspiracy theories. I'd have thought we would have learned that by now. Given that groupon explicitly made moves to claim the trademark it's kind of stupid to say it's "orchestrated". But it's not stupid to think that the money will be wasted towards things not even vaguely related to software, such as aforementioned campaigns. They've spent most of their budget on such things and then gave actual software the table scraps as clearly laid out by their financial reports [soylentnews.org].
But if people wanted to have such delusions I've seen ones that are less true. So at least there's that. I kind of wish that gnome would have just lost and lost severely. It's a terrible thing to say but they're eating so much money up right now that more deserving projects would probably appreciate. Imagine how far that $260K or even the $40K for this trademark thing would have went for libressl for example.
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(Score: 2) by arashi no garou on Wednesday November 12 2014, @06:38PM
Oh believe me, I'm with you on being disgusted with it all. I thought that would show in the sarcastic bent of my post. I'm sick of hearing about systemd, Gnome, gamergate, the whole shebang. I stopped using Gnome and switched to XFCE when 3.0 was released, I quit using Arch Linux when they switched to systemd (and will soon stop using Debian and Ubuntu and go 100% Slackware), and I feel terrible for the women victimized by trolls but I've turned off any source of news on that subject as I'm just plain done with it.
My post wasn't meant to be taken seriously, so I'm sorry about that. I've just heard it all this week, and was venting some frustration.
(Score: 2) by Lagg on Wednesday November 12 2014, @06:58PM
I saw the sarcasm but I just can't tell the context. This tends to happen to me a lot when it comes to this stuff because I've seen so much insanity in discussions even slightly related. But yeah I have much the same feeling. I'm even one of the types that thinks systemd can be fixed and has potential as recent cleanup releases have proven but even then I'm tired of it being shoved down my throat and as for gamergate I'm still not even 100% sure what it is. Kind of wondering if people partaking do either. I understand wanting to vent frustration though. I almost decided to take a vacation from soylent even because of it. Which would have pretty much left me a few scattered blogs and IRC channels to get my discussion from.
http://lagg.me [lagg.me] 🗿
(Score: 2) by arashi no garou on Wednesday November 12 2014, @11:11PM
I'm even one of the types that thinks systemd can be fixed
I have hopes for that too, but I don't see it happening. It exists for a very specific reason, and that reason has a lot to do with a certain few peoples' egos. But yeah, I'm pretty much over it. I've chosen to avoid it by sticking with conservative distros/OSes, and that way it can't get on my nerves quite so much.
As for the gamergate thing, I'm definitely sympathetic to the women involved, but it has been talked about to death and I'm so over it. It got so bad at one point that I chose to leave OSNews permanently, as it seemed that site was becoming gamergateNews instead. I didn't realize how toxic the community there was until I stepped back from it. I feel refreshed and genial instead of depressed and angry nowadays. I know that wasn't the full source of my mental state back then, but it is one less burden on my mind.