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A comment on Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated.

Re:Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated by SwellJoe on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @04:08PM (#8592175)
How is it that every time I see any article, blog post, whatever, about Groupon, including posts by Groupon themselves, I find myself feeling kinda like I need a shower? Some of their sliminess gets on me every time I come in contact with anything they do.

It takes incredible chutzpah (and not in a good way) to operate the way they operate. They wanted to trademark "Gnome" for a software product, and expected the GNOME project to just roll over and let it happen! It's as though no one else on the planet even exists or matters, in their estimation.

How is it that so many seemingly reputable investors are involved in this thing again? Groupon should have died on the vine six months into the story, but it didn't, and now we have to deal with their bullshit forever, I guess.

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Re:Gnome Foundation and Groupon product names – Updated by Rayearth on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @07:22PM (#8593198)
Yea, I was wondering where I had heard of Groupon before recently - I assumed that it was due to some of their shady business practices hitting the news - and realized that these were the same guys that sent a recruitment email about a junior Rails dev position to David Heinemeier Hansson.
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