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GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon
Drinking Bleach writes Groupon has released a tablet-based point of sale system called Gnome, despite the well-known desktop environment's existence and trademark status. This is also not without Groupon's internal knowledge of the GNOME project; they were contacted about the infringement and flatly refused to change the name of their own product, in addition to filing many new trademark applications for theirs. The GNOME project is seeking donations to help them in a legal battle against these trademark applications, and to get Groupon to stop using their name. They are seeking at least $80,000 to challenge a first set of ten trademark applications from Groupon, out of 28 applications that have been filed.
...called Groupon
Groupon Window System will take the best of windowing system technologies, mix it all up in a big bit bucket, and then start a flamewar followed by a schism. Just like all of the others.
Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
Some peple think that Gnome 3 is a fuming POS and say that Gnome 2 was way better tha the newer versions.
Gnome is certainly a PoS.
Any way, it shouldn't be a problem; they could just use a translation of the word 'Gnome' - for example, in Swedish: Nissan. Problem solved.
Groupon's SEO Ekssp3rt suggested that "Gnome POS" has so many google results that it makes their product look popular.
Soon everything will be a POS - Poettering's Operating System.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."