On Friday 24 March 2006 20:46, Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linux is a copyrighted term. There are licenses and laws that define how > 'Linux' can be used, and they apply.
"Linux" is a trademark (although I believe it is now a generic term in Australia). AFAIK, you can't copyright a single word. It has become fashionable in some quarters to collectively refer to trademark, copyright and patent law as "Intellectual Property" (often abbreviated as "IP"). They do so in the hope that muddying the waters surrounding these very distinct concepts will confuse ordinary citizens into accepting whatever they would like to foist upon us, such as DRM and spurious patents. Unfortunately, from what I can see it appears to be working quite well. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it. I know which one I'll trust. How about you?" - Scott Granneman, senior consultant for Bryan Consulting Inc., SecurityFocus, 2003-10-06
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