[gnome-web-www] Add groupon update & redirect donations to FoG
- From: Ekaterina Gerasimova <egerasimov src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gnome-web-www] Add groupon update & redirect donations to FoG
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 21:56:49 +0000 (UTC)
commit c0fda86a4755801ae041c99a303ba20781226309
Author: Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>
Date: Tue Nov 11 22:00:07 2014 +0000
Add groupon update & redirect donations to FoG
theme/groupon/index.html | 9 ++++++++-
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/theme/groupon/index.html b/theme/groupon/index.html
index e460670..5dea375 100644
--- a/theme/groupon/index.html
+++ b/theme/groupon/index.html
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@
<div class="container paragraphs">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-10 col-md-offset-1">
+
+ <p>Update: Thank you for all the support that you have given us.
+ Groupon have just confirmed with the GNOME Foundation that they are
+ going to abandon all of their 28 pending trademark applications and
+ will proceed with a name change for their product. We could not have
+ done this without your support!</p>
+
<p>"GNOME" has been a familiar name in software for the past 17 years, and a <a
href="http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=76368848&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch">registered
trademark</a> since 2006. The <a href="https://www.gnome.org/">GNOME project</a> has been a staple desktop
for GNU/Linux and BSD desktops. It was the default desktop for Sun Microsystems workstation class machines,
continues to be the default desktop for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
distributions, and it is the default desktop of Fedora and Debian. SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service
solution for the retail industry is based on GNOME. GNOME technology can be found in TVs, tablets, phones,
consumer devices, and in common software everywhere.</p>
<p>Recently Groupon announced a product with the same product name as GNOME. Groupon’s product is
a <a href="http://investor.groupon.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=848707">tablet based point of sale</a>
“operating system for merchants to run their entire operation." The GNOME community was shocked that Groupon
would use our mark for a product so closely related to the GNOME desktop and technology. It was almost
inconceivable to us that Groupon, with over $2.5 billion in annual revenue, a full legal team and a huge
engineering staff would not have heard of the GNOME project, found our trademark registration using a casual
search, or even found our website, but we nevertheless got in touch with them and asked them to pick another
name. Not only did Groupon refuse, but it has now filed even more trademark applications (the full list of
applications they filed can be found <a
href="http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=86200190%0A86200193%0A86200194%0A86200196%0A86200
657%0A86200661%0A86200759%0A86200763%0A86200765%0A86227618%0A&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=multiStatus">here</a>,
<a
href="http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=86287930%0A86287935%0A86287938%0A86287940%0A86287946%0A86287951%0A&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=multiStatus">here</a>
and <a
href="http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=86441913%0A86441922%0A86441923%0A86441925%0A86441926%0A86441930%0A86441933%0A86441934%0A86441937%0A86441941%0A86441945%0A86441951%0A&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=multiStatus">here</a>).
To use the GNOME name for a proprietary software product that is antithetical to the fundamental ideas of
the GNOME community, the free software community and the GNU project is outrageous. Please help us fight this
huge company as they try to trade on our goodwill and hard earned reputation.</p>
@@ -40,7 +47,7 @@
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-6 col-md-offset-3">
<div class="donate-share-container">
- <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=LKMQSMA5WPZQL"
class="btn btn-success donate-button">Help us by donating today</a>
+ <a href="https://www.gnome.org/friends/" class="btn btn-success donate-button">Become a
friend of GNOME!</a>
<p class="spread-the-word"><a
href="https://www.gnome.org/friends/other-ways-to-donate/">GNOME can also accept donations by check,
bank/wire transfer, Flattr and Bitcoin</a></p>
<p class="spread-the-word">Spread the word on: <a
href="https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://gnome.org/groupon/&t=Help%20the%20GNOME%20Foundation%20defend%20the%20GNOME%20trademark%20against%20Groupon!%20Please%20donate%20at%20https://gnome.org/groupon/">Facebook</a>,
<a href="https://plus.google.com/share?url=https://gnome.org/groupon/">Google+</a> and <a
href="https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=Help%20the%20GNOME%20Foundation%20%28
gnome%29%20defend%20the%20GNOME%20trademark%20against%20Groupon!%20To%20%23defendGNOME%20please%20donate%20at&url=https://gnome.org/groupon/&related=gnome">Twitter</a></p>
<p class="spread-the-word">So far, we have raised 68626.93 USD. We would like to thank our
donors for their generous support.</p>
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