Groupon Backs Down On Gnome

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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Re:Yes, after all... by kiite · 2014-11-11 15:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The GNOME foundation invented the word—nay, the letters themselves, carved and finished from wordstone hewn from the deep tunnels of the earth.
s/GNOME/Apple/ s/Apple/Android/ s/Android/Windows/ s/Windows/Palm/ s/Palm/Whirlpool/ s/Whirlpool/Whole Foods/
Clearly, all trademarks should be meaningless and indefensible.