Todd Walton said: > This seems kind of dumb to me. Linux (R) doesn't need protecting.
It needs to be protected from unscrupulous freeloaders who would trademark it themselves and then sue every distribution vendor and anyone else, including Linus, they think has money, to collect a "trademark fee" for using something they had nothing to do with producing. It happened before and likely would happen again. -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net http://www.paccomp.com Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. - Jeremy Bentham, jurist and philosopher (1748-1832) -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list