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Red Hat & Centos On Name Usage
Mister Incognito writes "As you probably know, Centos is a free distribution compiled from sources of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As requested, the distro has any references to Red Hat removed. But now Red Hat has decided that Centos must not even mention their name on the web site, or link to Red Hat, or even use metatags with its name on it. " Well, actually, what RHAT has asked for is that Centos comply with the their terms for using the name; Matthew Szulik has talked about this before, and should be noted that not all of the copyright stuff is "bad."
All occurances of "Red Hat" will be replaced with "Rat Hed".
Everyone just make sure to state that
RED HAT doesn't want CENTOS to link to them or mention their name because they are offering the same product as a free alternative.
This way google can index this so when people search they will find what they are looking for.
Now please copy and paste this post into every message board you frequent.
Thank you.
Good luck enforcing this or convincing a judge about this.
Not.I'm sure that the folks over at White Box Enterprise Linux really appreciate you pointing the RedHat lawyers their way.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor.
That sounds so ridiculous now....
Actually, every time you mention Red Hat, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or any other variation of Red Hat you can find, you should just link to the free version of Red Hat.
;-P
Oh, and speaking of Red Hat, I really do like Red Hat products and have to admit that Red Hat 5.2 was my first introduction to linux.
What does everyone else think we should do about the Red Hat trademark problem?
Addendum requested:
put the what in the where?
They should probably add that the vendor is named after a head covering that reflects light around 700 nm.