They’ve updated the link to say they are now going to abandon the TM
registrations:
'UPDATE: After additional conversations with the open source community and the
Gnome Foundation, we have decided to abandon our pending trademark applications
for “Gnome.” We will choose a new name for our product going forward.’
That was a quick ‘conversation’!
On 11 November 2014 at 22:48:46, Stephen McLeod Blythe ([email protected])
wrote:
I don’t buy it. Why haven’t they retracted the TM applications, and why did
they file them in the first place if it was an ongoing conversation?
More: http://iamsteve.in/2014/11/11/groupon-trademark-bullies/
On 11 November 2014 at 22:47:46, Simon Phipps ([email protected]) wrote:
Groupon has climbed down:
https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/misc/gnome-foundation-and-groupon-product-names/
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:19 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>
wrote:
Ugh. Seen this?
http://www.gnome.org/groupon/
They need $80,000 to oppose the first set of trademark registrations from
Groupon.
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