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Linux Trademark Fun Continues

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Orre noted an article running on internetnews about LMI's efforts to license the Linux trademark to companies that use it. Prices range from $200 to $5k for companies with over a million bucks in revenue.

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  1. Why charge for it? by benna · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why not just create a blanket license which says for what purposes the Linux trademark is allowed to be used, and be done with it. No need to charge companies for it, if, as Linus says, it isn't about the money. It seems to me this would satisfy the requirement that Linus police his trademark.

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  2. Linus disses /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting


    " the whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with people getting together and making their own "insightful" comment on any random topic, whether they know anything about it or not."

    - Linus Torvalds, 20 Aug 2005

    http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/20/95

  3. I call BS! by ImaLamer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Red Hat doesn't have one because they aren't using 'Linux' in their name. It's Red Hat, Inc.

    Makes me wonder though why Novell pays, being that they are "Novell Inc.".

    What about the product: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux"?

    Interestingly, I notice that the Red Hat web site doesn't use "Linux" on the front page except in direct reference to RHEL.

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