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"GNOME" the trademark has been a familiar name for the past 17 years in the Free and Open Source Community. The GNOME project has been a stable desktop for GNU/Linux and BSD desktops. It was the default desktop for Sun Microsystems workstation class machines and continues to be the default desktop for all enterprise related distributions, RHEL and SLES and the default desktop of Fedora and Debian. GNOME technology can be found in TVs, tablets, phones, consumer devices, and in common software everywhere.Recently Groupon announced a product with the same product name as GNOME. Groupon’s product is a point of sale system (POS) running on iOS that directly competes with Square POS. The GNOME community was shocked that Groupon would use our mark for a product so closely related to GNOME.While it was inconceivable that Groupon, with over $2.5billion in revenue, a full legal team and a huge engineering staff would not have heard of GNOME, found our trademark registrations, use a casual search, or even find our website, we politely got in touch with them and asked them to pick another name. Groupon has refused. To use the GNOME name for a proprietary software product that is antithetical to the fundamental ideas ofthe 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 good will and hard earned reputation. We want to show that nonprofit free software can't be pushed around, that our brand matters and that you care. Help us raise the funds to fight back and most of all call public attention to this terrible behavior by Groupon. Help us make sure that when people hear about GNOME software they learn about freedom and not proprietary software that collects data and denies them the basic rights that we fight for.
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