To: Rob Landley <telomerase@yahoo.com>
Cc: maddog@valinux.com, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there a Linux trademark issue with sun?
In-Reply-To: <20001215022730.11497.qmail@web5203.mail.yahoo.com>
From: burton@relativity.yi.org (Kevin A. Burton)
Date: 14 Dec 2000 20:44:59 -0800
In-Reply-To: Rob Landley's message of "Thu, 14 Dec 2000 18:27:30 -0800 (PST)"
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Rob Landley <telomerase@yahoo.com> writes:

> Heads up everybody.  Scott McNealy has apparently been
> calling Solaris Sun's implementation of Linux. 
> Trademark violation time.
<snip>

Yeah... isn't he a moron :)

> Assuming the quote is accurate (which, being ZD, is
> iffy), this strikes me as a mondo trademark violation,
> and exactly the sort of thing the Linux trademark was
> designed to prevent.  Solaris is NOT Linux.
<snip>

I am not sure it is a big deal.  If you read the comment it was more of an
off-the-cuff remark.

I doubt anyone would testify in court that McNealy said this.  The only way it
is something to worry about is if they used it in a printed format (IANAL)

Kevin

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