On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 09:20:18AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > what *am* i supposed to call it? if i go to red hat's web > site, click on that link, download the software and install > it, and someone comes up to me afterwards and asks me what > operating system i'm running, what am i legally allowed to > tell them? You can use a trademark in a descriptive sense -- very clearly fair use, even if I'm not a lawyer. You don't have to call the Boston Marathon "that long race that they've got every year in Boston". -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
