Hello, I see it as an opportunity, a big one.
On Tue, 29 Jun 2021, 11:30 Lydia Pintscher, <ly...@kde.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 10:20 AM David Redondo <k...@david-redondo.de> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > after many people saying that Windows 11 looks a bit similar to Plasma > (which > > is not the focus of this message, please don't start discussing it in > detail). > > They are now using a very familiar slogan to promote Windows 11. Go to > > https://insider.windows.com/en-us/insidewindows11 and scroll down a > bit. You > > will be greeted by > > > > Simple by default. > > Powerful by choice. > > > > I think that's really bad for us. I fear that they can appropriate our > slogan > > through their bigger reach and publicity resulting in us looking like > copy > > cats every time we want to use our "Simply by default. Powerful when > needed". > > I don't even want to think about what would happen if they would > trademark it. > > > > Our goal here should be to stop Microsoft from using it altogether. > Please > > don't yet post on social media or on your blog and make a huge stir. We > want > > to get this resolved as quickly as possible and public trouble may not > help if > > we can do this silently. > > For this I would like to ask the board if they could reach out to > Microsoft to > > try to get them stop copying our slogan. > > > > Regards, > > David > > Hi David, > > Thanks! Looking into it. > > > Cheers > Lydia > > -- > Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher > KDE e.V. Board of Directors > http://kde.org - http://open-advice.org >
