Compile vs. RPM

[leonard.isham at gmail.com (Leonard Isham)]

On 1/10/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 15:28, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > >
> > > Perhaps RH will sue the "RH clone" builders if they include a
> > > redhat-release rpm or /etc/redhat-release file?  It would seem rather silly.
> >
> > While it would be rather silly ... we have been told not to make redhat-
> > release say Trademarked things :)
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________________
> I'm not a lawyer, but I thought that if you wanted to keep your
> trademark you had to keep it from being used as a generic term.
> If third party apps must use the trademarked reference when
> they really want to test for a generic compatible OS, they've
> done something wrong.  There was a time when the only way to
> get aspirin was to ask for a trademarked brand name...
>

The applications only want to support the actual Prominent North
American... or what ever we should call them.

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Leonard Isham, CISSP
Ostendo non ostento.