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Comment by rasengan | Hacker News Reader

One of the lead security people at Groupon has a big GNOME sticker on his laptop in a pic on LinkedIn. This tells me that groupon is about to get pooped on.

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You should definitely save that pic and a timestamp or something to that effect. Bonus points if you do it in front of a lawyer in the right jurisdiction.

Already done yesterday while we were getting all this prepared. :)

Excellent. Groupon already was pretty high on my shit-list, they just elevated themselves to the top 10.

It's a bit more extreme than that; read his summary; https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/93i0gkawa4q15lh/2014-11-...

Edit: cannot be the one you meant? He is part of the GNOME foundation...

Exactly. :/

Message him pretending to be a recruiter and ask him which one he works on.

Yes, because if there's something that every developer does, it's answer their recruiter spam :)

This just went from trademark infringement to calculated, evil, purposive attempt to co-opt someone else's trademark. Seriously, I hope Groupon get crushed under the court - countering this sort of activity is the entire purpose of TM law.

Whoever is steering things at Groupon must be pretty evil to try and play this out.

For those without access to the full LinkedIn page: https://i.imgur.com/ocyqh2N.png

GNOME Foundation - January 2002 - Present (12 Years 11 Months)

4 times member of board of directors...

WTF?!

Or that he's going to be fired for being a liability to the company.

From Groupon, I expect the worst.

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