Groupon Backs Down On Gnome · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @03:10PM from the a-little-internet-outrage-is-all-it-takes dept.

Rambo Tribble writes: Groupon has announced it will abandon the 'Gnome' name for their product, ending the recent naming controversy that had the open source community up in arms. They said, "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." The GNOME Foundation has thanked everyone who helped.

My question... does this represent Gnu thinking on the part of Groupon?

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Smart move by Anonymous Coward · 2014-11-11 15:40 · Score: 2, Interesting

The risk was not from the Gnome Foundation's lawyers, but from smartasses all around the Internet coming up with ways to get back at Groupon with names for preposterous services that don't quite infringe on Groupon's trademark.