29 thoughts on “Submit a logo, win an Asus Eee – Easy Peasy!

  1. @macs – That you don’t think there is a problem does not alter the fact that any name beginning ‘easy’ is breaching a registered trademark. Additionally the passage that you have quoted rather suggests that you WILL be in trouble and not the converse. Search web to discover how aggressively this trademark is defended in court. I have noticed that Jon has proposed eee PCs with the word ‘easy’ on the lid. I certainly think if I saw a PC with ‘easy’ on it I would instantly assume it comes from the ‘easy’ group.

    Lemon Squeezy is also a registered trade mark.

    The name is rubbish – jellys, or cleaning products being associated with lemons is fine, but cars and computers – that expression is already used to indicate a pile of rubbish. If you have an unreliable car, computer, mixer, washing machine you would refer to it as a lemon.

    Still if you want to use such a daft name, there is always crunchbang! Just watch the outflow- it would be consignia, or mytravel all over again…

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  3. Greg, thanks for the heads up, but it’s probably not going to be a problem. Can’t trademark a saying

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  6. Eh…

    Lemon Squeezy
    this is the name of a driving School in Edimburgh, Scotland.

    just see the main page:
    “Learning to drive ?
    It’s Easy peasy with Lemon Squeezy”

    … :p

    copyrights problems ahead ?

  7. Hey what about “Easy Peasy EEE”?
    It is Easy, it is catchy and it has EEE in it, so it will get recognized by people. “Easy Peasy” on itself doesnt give any association with EEE nor Ubuntu nor computers.
    Additional bonus: EPE looks a bit like EEE.
    More: EPE is symetric – chance for a nicer logo.

  8. @brendan: from the easy.com website (url http://www.easy.com/thieves/index.html )

    “If there is ever a chance that consumers could believe that a company using the name ‘easy’ is part of the easyGroup when this is not the case, then the easyGroup will move to protect both itself and consumers.”

    i don’t think this is the case!

  9. The ‘lemon squeezy’ part came years after the expression ‘easy peezy’. The expression is one used by pre school children. Squeezy is an established brand of washing-up liquid or detergent. The ‘easy peezy lemon squeezy’ vwersion came about after squeezy became available in a lemon variant and may well have been from a comercial. Either way a allusion to lemonade is just ludicrous.

    ‘Easy’ at the beginning of a brand name, or as a brand itself is a registered trademark, and is aggressively defended by easy group.

    If you have an English mother tongue, this name sounds utterly ridiculous.

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  11. Hello! First comment here, even if i’m an happy Ubuntu EEE user :D

    I think that Easy Peasy is a really nice name, much more than the others i see here… so this is way i choose to enjoy the logo contest, hope my work will be appreciated :D

    i just uploaded “V1 | easy peasy lemon” on wiki, in next days i’ll upload V2 and V3 :D

  12. Sorry for somewhat commercial link in my previous comment Ramvi. However, the idea was to give full support for new name. Easy Peasy could be used on projects where easy to use laptops are given for children in schools around the world. Although adults need easy to use OS as well :)

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  15. I picture some kind of lemon logo that exudes the same professionalism and quality as the Easy Peasy name suggests.

    Many thanks to you, Jon, and to all the others putting in the hard work to make this distro what it is today. I just don’t like the new name.

  16. Just to clarify: I very much appreciate all the work put into Ubuntu Eee/Easy Peasy, and I use it every day—my EeePC 1000 is my primary computer. So many many thanks to you, Jon, and to all the others putting in the hard work. I just don’t like the new name.

  17. I think the new name doesn’t sound very… professional. It’s so childish (or do you think the eeepc is childish too?)

  18. I actually thought the eeepc was called easy peasy when it came out: E’s, E, PC – geddit?