Microsoft taking inspiration from Plasma slogan

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 10:20 AM David Redondo <kde at 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

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