Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:52:24 -0500
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, andy <rootstrap@googlemail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need to pay to use the word "Linux" in commercial products/services!
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From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
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On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 09:21:50PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> Trademarks are specific to a specific area.  My favorite example was
> the British advertisements for vacuum cleaners, "Nothing sucks like a
> Vax" back when I was hacking BSD 4.3 systems on a Digital Vax/750.  Of
> course there can be problems when companies expand beyond their
> original areas of their trademark registration --- hence the conflict
> between Apple Computers, Inc., and Apple Corps (a holding company
> which owned Apple Records and the copyrights to Beatle's music) when
> Apple started expanding into their iPod and iTunes store business.

Or when they added speakers to even allow any music to be played.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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