{"id":5103,"date":"2014-11-12T08:44:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T08:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5103"},"modified":"2014-11-12T08:57:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T08:57:09","slug":"gnome-trademark-applications-dropped-by-groupon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=5103","title":{"rendered":"Gnome trademark applications dropped by Groupon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2012\/12\/gnome_tn.png\" alt=\"Gnome logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"57\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-894\" \/>Following on from news yesterday of the threat to the GNOME trademark from a series of applications for the same name by Groupon (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=5098\" title=\"Help the GNOME Foundation defend the GNOME trademark against Groupon!\">posts passim<\/a><\/em>), the latter has now withdrawn those applications and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.groupon.com\/blog\/cities\/gnome-update\">issued the following statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Groupon is a strong and consistent supporter of the open source community, and our developers are active contributors to a number of open source projects. We\u2019ve been communicating with the Foundation for months to try to come to a mutually satisfactory resolution, including alternative branding options, and we\u2019re happy to continue those conversations. Our relationship with the open source community is more important to us than a product name. And if we can\u2019t come up with a mutually acceptable solution, we\u2019ll be glad to look for another name.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: After additional conversations with the open source community and the Gnome Foundation, we have decided to abandon our pending trademark applications for &#8220;Gnome&#8221;. We will choose a new name for our product going forward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from news yesterday of the threat to the GNOME trademark from a series of applications for the same name by Groupon (posts passim), the latter has now withdrawn those applications and issued the following statement. Groupon is a strong and consistent supporter of the open source community, and our developers are active contributors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9],"tags":[19,12,23],"class_list":["post-5103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-open-source-software","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-open-source","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5103"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5109,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5103\/revisions\/5109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}