Microsoft taking inspiration from Plasma slogan

[Uli Klinkhammer]

I would see it totally different:

Make it public as much as you can! Otherwise they will never stop with
those stealings.

And yes, let them use this slogan! We should take it as an honor. But
let everybody know that it was stolen.

greets,

Uli



On 29/06/2021 10:19, David Redondo 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
>
>
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