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.


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