Re: [Cooker] Sad state of pre-releasing to consumers

[Graham Percival]

Millions of electrons died to bring me this message.  Was it worth it,
 Jason Straight?
> On Sunday 29 October 2000 16:00, you wrote:
> > Well take the Red Hat linux distro and call it Mandrake and redistribute
> > it....
> 
> Yeah, but the difference is Mandrake did that and they didn't call it RedHat 
> anymore! MacMillan is distribuing "Mandrake Linux 7.2" only it isn't!
> 
> it's 7.2rc1 or thereabout. If they are going to do that they need to change 
> the name to MacMillan linux 1.0 or whatever.

They don't *need* to change the name.  Unless MandrakeSoft didn't give
MacMillian permission to use their trademarked name (mea culpa about the
"copyright" screw-up on my part), there's nothing that can be done to stop
them.

Of course, they *should* change the name, or otherwise make it clear that it
is a beta version.  But the US market system and legal system go by what is
legal, not by what is right.

The only thing we can do is to get the word out: the thing called "Mandrake
7.2" that is sold in Wal-Mart is not the real Mandrake 7.2.

-- 
  Graham Percival