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Honest question. Did the author even attempted to contact Sony or anyone in the KDE organization to resolve this issue?
Honest question: Who do you contact and what is the chance that it would be at all an effective approach? Are you basically asking the OP to bang their head against the wall dealing with "tier 1" customer support agents?
That's a serious case of Google-Image-Searchitis. My theory: somebody googled for "settings icon", swore to himself to get proper artwork later, forgot, and there we have it. (Yes, I'm guilty of that too, but I usually don't forget)
I usually use a CC search engine filter (even Google has this!) to make sure I pick legal artwork from the start, just in case I forget.
And totally unnecessary too, probably. I seriously doubt this kind of software is in any way an edge over their competitors - it's probably just big corp habit.
I wonder if this happens because of open source being mistaken for public domain. I've definitely had lecturers who confuse the two.
So what now? Are we going to see Sony GPL'ing their UEFI implementation?
I think unfortunately the best case of action would be for KDE to sue Sony pre-emptively. Otherwise, some lawyer on Sony's side would notice KDE using "their" icon and sue KDE.
That's a serious case of Google-Image-Searchitis. My theory: somebody googled for "settings icon", swore to himself to get proper artwork later, forgot, and there we have it. (Yes, I'm guilty of that too, but I usually don't forget)
What search terms do you use to get this particular icon returned? [settings icon]["settings icon"][free settings icon] etc don't return it.
I like Sony, but some stuff they did in the past was highly questionable and may come back to haunt them, specially when some random artist at them use someone else artwork. The best thing Sony can do is fix this, say sorry, and punish the guy that did this. But.I have a hunch that they won't do that.
On the left hand side of that image you see a little segment that conists of a hand, an eye and an ear. Those stand for interaction, video and audio. TrueTech hired Jonathan Kraij, a talented young designer to make that logo and it was featured in many places, magazines such as wave and many others besides in the late 90's.
Not three weeks after one prominent bout of exposure the logo appeared in an advertising campaign by Sony the Netherlands.
We talked it over with them and they traced it to a guy working for one of the agencies that designed the campaign. He'd most likely been subconsciously influenced by exposure from a magazine. Sony was pretty good about it, promised they wouldn't use the logo any further and paid us a fair bit of money to offset the use.
All in all it could have been a lot worse and I think that before you start using words like 'pirates' you have to dig a little deeper to be sure that it was intentional and that it wasn't some external party that caused this.
Sony is a damaged brand, they've done lots of terribly stupid stuff but at a minimum they should be given the benefit of the doubt until there is hard proof they did this on purpose. We all know Sony fucked up in the past but that is no reason to automatically assume they did so again without any proof.
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