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Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 11:28:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Rob Landley <telomerase@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Is there a Linux trademark issue with sun?
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: maddog@valinux.com, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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--- Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Rob Landley wrote:
> > >people just don't get it, do you? All Linux 
> > >applications run on Solaris, which is our 
> > >implementation of Linux. Now ask the question
> again,"
> 
> I wouldn't worry about this.  It's only a question
> of time
> before people will start to ask him why Sun isn't
> shipping
> the "original Linux" but has their own, strange,
> version ;)

Sure.  But why HAVE a trademark if we don't enforce
it?

Grassroots support is always a wondeful thing, and
educating the public is extremely important.  Then
again, what McNealy's trying to confuse his customers.
 Enforcing the trademark would therefore serve an
educational purpose, wouldn't it? :)

> cheers,
> 
> Rik

Rob

> Hollywood goes for world dumbination,
> 	Trailer at 11.

Projector finally fixed, film at 11.
Coughing fit strikes city, phlegm at 11.
Mad dog on mains treat, foam at 11...

This counts as a genre, doesn't it?

Rob

... I'm not an actor, but I play one on TV.

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