On 9/6/05, Neil Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
You're telling me that a judge would say, "Well, I see that the word Linux has existed for quite some time, but you Bad Person, actually registered it last week, and so you have the legal right to appropriate its use."? I respect Linus's autonomy in his decision making, and if he wants to exercise a legal power granted to him, well... what am I going to do about it? But it seems to me that if being able to use the word "Linux" were to require legal game-playing of this sort, I'd rather just find another word. A person's got to have priorities. -todd -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
