Groupon loses war with the open source community over GNOME trademark

Yesterday I covered Groupon’s attempt to seize the GNOME trademark for a tablet product. Well it didn’t take long for the folks at Groupon to realize that they had made a dreadful mistake in taking on the open source community. The company has quickly backed off and will now leave GNOME alone.

Groupon admits defeat in a blog post:

After additional conversations with the open source community and the Gnome Foundation, we have decided to abandon our pending trademark applications for “Gnome.” We will choose a new name for our product going forward.

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