The Gnome Foundation is claiming Groupon has infringed on its trademark and is seeking financial and community support to finance its fight.

The open source organization’s Gnome project, which is behind the Gnome desktop for GNU/Linux and BSD, has been active for 17 years and owns a registered trademark on the Gnome name since 2006.

Nevertheless, it now feels threatened by Groupon, which has filed a flurry of trademark applications for the same name for a tablet based point-of-sale (POS) system it launched in May.

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