Linux Trademark Protection In Australia

robyannetta writes "Australian companies providing Linux products and services may soon have to pay up to $A5000 a year to licence the operating system name (warning: Registration Required), if the patents agency IP Australia grants a trademark application it is reviewing. About 90 companies with products, services or websites containing the word "Linux" recently received letters of demand from Perth lawyer Jeremy Malcolm. Acting for user group Linux Australia Inc, he asks recipients to sign statements saying their use of the word is subject to the group's licence agreement, which has fees of $A200 to $A5000 under a successful trademark application."

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Re:Austrailia

[niteice]

OT I know, but I have to say this one thing to people like you that say our president wasn't elected: whether or not Bush was really elected is not valid right now, as he gained a majority vote for his second term. So don't go around saying Bush wasn't elected, he technically was elected the second time around, it was fair as per the US Constitution, whether or not you like it.

(i could go off on a long rant about how it's like heresy to not be a bush-hater on the internet but that's for another time)