Tom Marchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:43:57 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: >> ... "z/Linux" ... verboten (for legal reasons ... ). >It is? What legal reasons?
Well, Turbo did have the trademark, but it's officially marked as "abandoned" in the USPTO database. But "legal" is sort of second-order: IBM has a policy that they never use names which themselves are derivatives of someone else's trademark. So since "Linux" is a (TM), "z/Linux" is verboten. At least, that's how I've heard it explained; I'm sure there are exceptions, so don't flame me about 'em, I'm only the messenger. ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
