Re: GNOME starts campaign to protect its trademarks

2014-11-12 Thread Magdalen Berns
At last count, the number was up to USD 87693.47. It seems Shakespeare was quite wrong about the insignificance of a name, after all... It would be great to see that money not have to go on Lawyers fees, I must say. One has to wonder why they didn't just use a trademark search first and why

GNOME starts campaign to protect its trademarks

2014-11-11 Thread Tobias Mueller
GNOME has launched a campaign¹ to raise funds for protecting the GNOME trademarks. Recently, Groupon launched Gnome², a tablet-based point of sale (POS) system that Groupon describes as a “platform” and an “operating system”. The GNOME Foundation is concerned and sees their long-established