On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:24:42PM +1200, Mahesh De Silva wrote: > This also has implecations for using "red hat" at our > install fests!!
no, it has not. > Dear Sir/Madam: > I am writing on behalf of Red Hat, Inc. with respect > to its trademark > matters. > > It has come to our attention that you are offering for > sale computer > software under the name RED HAT trademark on your > commercial website > located at www.xsolutions.co.nz. In addition, you have > imbedded our > trademarks within your metatags in violation of > trademark and unfair > competition laws. there is NOTHING NEW here. it has been known for many years that red hat does not want anyone to sell the free downloadable iso images under the name redhat but only as 'based on redhat' (or something like that) and to a degree that is reasonable. they want redhat to stand for the service and the packages they sell. by selling red hat iso images people might get the impression that they get the same stuff as they would get if they buy directly from redhat. that is not the case. hence your product must clearly indicate that. the only thing new is that they start to enforce the trademark something which they are actually required to do, or else they loose it. comparing this with microsoft is unjustified, in my opinion. greetings, martin. (who is using debian where such problems don't exist) -- Pike Conference 2003 - Sep 25-27 - http://pike.ida.liu.se/conferences/2003/ -- interested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
