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
