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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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On Wed, 26 Oct 2016, Tim Mann wrote:

> I believe our trademark guidelines say we aren't supposed to use VMware as a
> noun to mean a product, only to mean the company.  So we can say "running on
> VMware ESXi" or "running in a VMware virtual machine", but "running on VMware"
> is wrong.  There is supposedly some good legal reason for this related to
> keeping our trademark.

Please sort that out internally and resend the whole lot when this is
resolved.

Thanks,

	tglx