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I don't know who Sri Viswanath is, but I wonder if he understands the implications of "we’ll be glad to look for another name."

This has to have been run by Groupon legal, right?

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>This has to have been run by Groupon legal, right?

Yep. And that portion was in bold. Groupon has officially backed down.

Not necessarily, however, if they did, I wonder if it was due to the fact that their legal team advised to do it or they backed down due to community/Internet pressure.

Yes, they did:

"Groupon has agreed to change its product name" http://www.gnome.org/news/2014/11/groupon-has-agreed-to-chan...

The legal team of course reviews product names pre-launch. This about-face was due to community/Internet pressure.

Sri is the SVP of engineering.

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