On 06/14/2012 02:23 AM, Tom H wrote:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:57 PM, P. Larry Nelson<[email protected]> wrote:
zxq9 wrote on 6/13/2012 12:32 AM:
On 06/13/2012 06:44 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
(On this list, are we really required to say "TUV" instead of
"***censored***",
as if we were playing a 1984 double-speak live action game?)
Yes, because lawyers have made even casual conversation a legal minefield
for
reasons other than getting disappeared by the Thought Police.
Pretty much anything trademarked, burdened by customer guarantees of any
sort,
or otherwise encumbered in any way should be referred to obliquely on this
list.
This sounds silly, I know, but the reason is that the labs who support
this
project don't have the bandwidth or the desire to even open a conversation
about
how to open a proper, legal, trade protections unencumbered conversation,
and to
that end terms like "TUV" are used around here.
Not that TUV is a bad player -- *far* from it -- but why even open the
door in
case the wind starts blowing the other way?
Could someone who maintains this list (Connie? Pat?) please confirm or deny
this seemingly absurd policy!
I have not searched the archives of this list, but of the 1824 messages I
have saved locally over the years, for one reason or another, 333 of them
contain "Redhat" in the body of the message, while another 74 contain "Red
Hat".
I don't recall anyone ever getting their typing fingers slapped.
You forgot to check for RHEL. :)
Can't imagine anyone would get in trouble over this, ever. But the
reasoning is in the FAQ:
http://www.scientificlinux.org/documentation/faq/general1
I misspoke when I wrote "on this list" but rather its an official
project guideline. Of course, that could change -- but is it such a big
issue either way?
