Microsoft taking inspiration from Plasma slogan

[Agustin Benito (toscalix)]

Hello,

I see it as an opportunity, a big one.

On Tue, 29 Jun 2021, 11:30 Lydia Pintscher, <lydia at kde.org> wrote:

> 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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> KDE e.V. Board of Directors
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