On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 12:27, Thomas Dodd wrote: > Well, the "reason" was the Red Hat restritions on TRADEMARK use. That's what I meant (I get all this legalese mixed up anyway). > Buy I mene, why Red Hat implemented it that way, condidering the > benifits the old method had. They even made CheapBytes change the > RHL-7.2 listing to Linux x86 CPU Version 7.2. > <http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart/0070010722.html> > > IO couldn't find 7.0 anywhere, the they still have the RHL-6.2 Sparc > release, but changed it to Linux Version 6.2 Sparc. An the S/390 version > of RHL-7.1 is now ThinkBlue S/390 Linux 7.1a > > Notice, Mandrake, SuSE, Caldera, and Debian are used without changes, > but Red Hat was removed from every listing other than the Red Hat boxed > sets. I can only say that, according to the trademark laws in the US, the trademark owner much vigorously defend his trademark or rick losing it. I discovered this with the Star Trek trademark. SuSE & Mandrake may not have this & Debian isn't trademarked, is it? Caldera is dead so they don't count. -- Farewell neighbor. Thank you for giving us a safe place for so many years. Fred Rodgers - 1928-2003
