1 in 9 Companies Sign Linux Trademark Letter

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."

Comments

Re:Man, time flies

[suitepotato]

The problem became that it was all about every damn geek's and group of geeks' code. Everyone had their own idea of how Linux should be. Instead of a few flavors of Unix supported by their vendors, we had nine thousand flavors of Linux which may or may not be supported in any way by anyone at all.

That's clearly untenable and if Novell, Red Hat, IBM, and the rest finally got together and agreed on some interoperability, framework, and architectural standards, that would go far to help Linux as the roll your own distros would tend to follow them.

Put another way, I still have no faith in the Debian group, am wary of the Fedora group and only continuing because of the ongoing tie to Red Hat.

Re:Free as in ...

[freeweed]

it needs to be said.

You know, it already has been said. Hundreds of times, in every article posted relating to this subject. You're not contributing anything to the discussion.

I know I'll be moderated down for this

Ah, never mind. You were just karma whoring. Worked like a charm! :)