Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names

https://engineering.groupon.com/2014/misc/gnome-foundation-and-groupon-product-names/

by sigvef • 12 years ago

38 14 12 years ago

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debacle• 12 years ago

I don't know who Sri Viswanath is, but I wonder if he understands the implications of "we’ll be glad to look for another name."

This has to have been run by Groupon legal, right?

declan2• 12 years ago

This has to have been run by Groupon legal, right?

Yep. And that portion was in bold. Groupon has officially backed down.

choclo• 12 years ago

Not necessarily, however, if they did, I wonder if it was due to the fact that their legal team advised to do it or they backed down due to community/Internet pressure.

ajma• 12 years ago

Sri is the SVP of engineering.

Duhveed• 12 years ago

Good for Groupon...it's the right thing to do.

frogball• 12 years ago

Why didn't they just change the name when Gnome told them not to use it? I thought Groupon was a good company. This is just pure evil.

SwellJoe• 12 years ago

I thought Groupon was a good company.

Where would you have gotten that idea? Certainly not from anything Groupon has ever done.

slackstation• 12 years ago

What is the name in question?

w-ll• 12 years ago

Groupon was trying to trademark 'Gnome' which was that name for their POS system.

alasdair_• 12 years ago

https://twitter.com/Groupon/status/532268238621921280

"We have decided to abandon our pending trademark applications for #Gnome. Read more: http://gr.pn/gnomeupdate #defendGNOME"

naner• 12 years ago

Was the naming an honest mistake or deliberate marketing move? :)

I've heard absolutely nothing about Groupon recently (they are selling a POS now?!) until this happened.

Probably an honest mistake, though. Gnome seems an odd choice for a deliberate trademark conflict.

benbristow• 12 years ago

The good that came out of this is that GNOME now have tons of money from donations that they're going to put to use improving the GNOME desktop. Woo!

jrcii• 12 years ago

They should call their product git for "groupon it"

Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names

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