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1 in 9 Companies Sign Linux Trademark Letter

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wonder-where-this-will-go dept.

An anonymous reader writes "More than 10 percent of the 90-odd organisations which received a letter asking them to relinquish any legal claim to the 'Linux' name have agreed to do so. Jeremy Malcolm, the lawyer who's leading the charge on behalf of Linux Mark Institute, described the response and favorable, saying: "Not all of the recipients were using Linux as part of their business of product/service names. He added that one of the purposes of sending the letter out in the first place was to discern which organisations might use the name for commercial gain."

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  1. Re:Where will it go? by Prospero's+Grue · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, I understood that all the proceeds would be going into Lunis' operating system; Lunix.

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  2. "Butthead Astronomer" by putko · · Score: 5, Funny

    When Apple called a project "Sagan", the astronomer got irritated, and told them to cease and desist.

    Then they changed it to "Butthead Astronomer": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan

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    1. Re:"Butthead Astronomer" by gowen · · Score: 2, Funny

      Along similar lines, part of the Apple Corp (Beatles record label) v. Apple Computer settlement was that the computer company stay out of the music industry to avoid trademark confusion. So when Macs started making sounds for the first time, the default sound was called "SoSuMi".

      But only after "Let It Beep" was rejected.

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  3. Re:Whose business model is this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Gollum .... is that you?

  4. Re:1/10 = 1/9? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    #define PI 3
    #define 1/10 1/9

    Problems solved.