Fwd: #DefendGNOME

[Alfredo Hernández]

Brothers and sisters, together we are stronger!

"*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.*" (from
https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/misc/gnome-foundation-and-groupon-product-names/
)

On 11 November 2014 20:48, Satyajit Sahoo <satyajit.happy at gmail.com> wrote:

> They couldn't just say that they surrender, right! Corporate world!
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014, 12:56 AM Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2014-11-11 at 23:26 +0530, Satyajit Sahoo wrote:
>> > Seems groupon is left no choice
>> > now https://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/gnome-update
>>
>> I don't read this as capitulation, not really.  Basically it seems to
>> say "we'll keep trying to get them to let us use the name, but we'll
>> hold off lawyers for now".  I think there are grounds to be cautiously
>> optimistic, but not triumphant.
>>
>>
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