[gnome-web-www] Re-add groupon update



commit 30fe62b1b99416d9a8079b401e8cc65008889f19
Author: Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>
Date:   Tue Nov 11 23:32:26 2014 +0000

    Re-add groupon update
    
    The campagn is over as Groupon have agreed to change the name of their
    product, so donations are no longer necessary to the campaign.

 theme/groupon/index.html |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/theme/groupon/index.html b/theme/groupon/index.html
index 65be207..84a3b04 100644
--- a/theme/groupon/index.html
+++ b/theme/groupon/index.html
@@ -31,6 +31,14 @@
     <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.
+          <a href="http://www.gnome.org/news/2014/11/groupon-has-agreed-to-change-its-product-name/";>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</a>. We could not have
+          done this without your help!</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 +48,7 @@
           <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 87693.47 USD. We would like to thank our 
donors for their generous support.</p>


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