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Gnome made more than 60k from this, while Groupon declined their plans. Flawless victory?
There should be some safeguards in the law that you cannot easily re purpose solicited donations for a cause.
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I don't think you can characterize it as being evil. There's also no clear ulterior motive for pushing through with the name, and "capitalizing on the name recognition of the Gnome project" is not a valid hypothesis since that name doesn't mean anything for 99% of Groupon's customers. It looks more like they were just being a typical stubborn corporation. Some product manager got really attached to the name and they…
You don't say anything that's not exactly right, but you're still missing the point. They had the opportunity to own up to their mistake and seek the goodwill of the community. They missed that chance. Perhaps not "evil", but certainly worth some continued indignation.
My suspicion is it'll blow over pretty quickly, though, if for no other reason than there are more pressing issues keeping most open source developers awake as opposed to an already resolved trademark dispute which never even went to court. This was a good day, wasn't it?
Hmmm.... This doesn't seem to line up with what Gnome said [0]: > It was almost inconceivable to us that Groupon, with over $2.5 billion in annual revenue, a full legal team and a huge engineering staff would not have heard of the GNOME project, found our trademark registration using a casual search, or even found our website, but we nevertheless got in touch with them and asked them to pick another name. Not only di…
Either way Groupon made the right decision here imo
As a show of good faith, Groupon should write the Gnome Foundation a check for the remaining $12k (currently at $68k)
It would be a tax write off for them either way, so a huge PR win, and a small tax win.
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Either way Groupon made the right decision here imo
They seemed to come to this decision only when it was realized that they had no way of winning the fight. Hardly worth congratulating for.
Gnome made more than 60k from this, while Groupon declined their plans. Flawless victory?
IANAL but I think it will be nightmare for their accountants. There should be some safeguards in the law that you cannot easily re purpose solicited donations for a cause.
Gnome made more than 60k from this, while Groupon declined their plans. Flawless victory?
IANAL but I think it will be nightmare for their accountants. There should be some safeguards in the law that you cannot easily re purpose solicited donations for a cause.
Gnome made more than 60k from this, while Groupon declined their plans. Flawless victory?
IANAL but I think it will be nightmare for their accountants. There should be some safeguards in the law that you cannot easily re purpose solicited donations for a cause.
If we are able to defend the mark without spending
this amount, we will use the remaining funds to
bolster and improve GNOME.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8590335