Re: Linux Trademarked? -- [OT] time to take this off-list (it's clearly just you and I) ...

[jperrin at gmail.com (Jim Perrin)]

Yes. I'm top posting. At this point I do not care. Please for the love
of GOD let this thread die. Please carry it off list and have your way
with it, but it's sickening that it's carried on for so long.

On 8/24/05, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 13:10, Mike McCarty wrote:
> > > In fact, I don't see how you could meet the
> > > requirement of keeping copyright notices intact for the linux kernel
> > > without calling it linux.   And I'd expect it to be very difficult
> >
> > Precisely my point. And, in order to preserve the trademark, he may
> > have to do something of the sort. Remember, the law doesn't have to
> > make sense, it just has to be enforceable :-)
> >
> > > to remove the name from the source code and keep it working.
> >
> > Why is that?
> 
> Consider all the independently written and maintained kernel modules
> that expect to find needed things under /usr/include/linux as a
> simple example.  I'm sure some things that peek there at run-time
> too.
> 
> > > There might be a special case here since Linus still controls the
> > > trademark, but suppose it survives him and falls into the wrong
> > > hands.  Suppose, for the worst case example, SCO owned the trademark.
> >
> > Now, now. Your prejudices are showing :-)
> >
> > How about Yoko Ono?
> 
> OK, some unnamed entity with a history of taking money from a
> well-heeled company and subsequently causing trouble for it's
> competitors.  Note that I'm not saying those things are related,
> but I don't think it applies to Yoko.
> 
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