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SuSE No Longer Barred From Selling

Posted by Hemos on Thursday January 10, 2002 @01:11AM from the crayola-next dept.

MobyTurbo writes "According to a press release SuSE is no longer barred from selling Linux as reported and discussed in a thread on slashdot. SuSE is settling out of court with a German company called "Crayon" that claims that the KDE app Krayon violates their trademark. Incidentally, this vulnerability probably applies to several other distributions."

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Much more details at The Register by boa13 · 2002-01-10 01:22 · Score: 0, Redundant

Read this.
Just a scam by Goose+In+Orbit · 2002-01-10 01:24 · Score: 0, Redundant

According to The Register, the whole thing was just a scam-some-cash scheme by Crayon, aided by some lawyer with a bit of a reputation for this sort of thing...