You have to remember that trademarks have context, meaning that they're only valid in relation to the primary function of the registrant company. This is why we can have a Delta Airlines, a Delta Electronics, and a Delta Faucets without any of them suing the others. So unless Mr. Serious is a website (not has a website), he doesn't have much legal ground.
for them to put it on anything else. Think about it. UPN is Paramount's network, and Star Trek is made by Paramount. Star Trek is really the only thing UPN has going for it, so if there wasn't a ST there, the network would die.....fast.
Delta is a Greek letter. Sororities and fraternaties are Greek organizations and use Greek letters to identify themselves. There is no trademark infrigment going on. Furthermore, trademarks are taken in context. Take Delta for example. There is a Delta Airlines, Delta Electronics, and a Delta that makes faucets, the full name of which I'm not sure. They are all Deltas, and they have all trademarked Delta, but the trademark is only valid in the context of their business. If a company is not an airline, electronics manufacturer, a faucet manufacturer, or in another field with a trademarked Delta, that company is free to use the name Delta.
This doesn't just put a clamp on Linux users. At my job, we use Samba on AIX machines to provide users access to certain translation tables. With Microsoft's new forced upgrade scheme, what's a business that doesn't want to pay extra to downgrade supposed to do in this situation?
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You have to remember that trademarks have context, meaning that they're only valid in relation to the primary function of the registrant company. This is why we can have a Delta Airlines, a Delta Electronics, and a Delta Faucets without any of them suing the others. So unless Mr. Serious is a website (not has a website), he doesn't have much legal ground.
for them to put it on anything else. Think about it. UPN is Paramount's network, and Star Trek is made by Paramount. Star Trek is really the only thing UPN has going for it, so if there wasn't a ST there, the network would die.....fast.
Delta is a Greek letter. Sororities and fraternaties are Greek organizations and use Greek letters to identify themselves. There is no trademark infrigment going on. Furthermore, trademarks are taken in context. Take Delta for example. There is a Delta Airlines, Delta Electronics, and a Delta that makes faucets, the full name of which I'm not sure. They are all Deltas, and they have all trademarked Delta, but the trademark is only valid in the context of their business. If a company is not an airline, electronics manufacturer, a faucet manufacturer, or in another field with a trademarked Delta, that company is free to use the name Delta.
Will this myth never end?
This doesn't just put a clamp on Linux users. At my job, we use Samba on AIX machines to provide users access to certain translation tables. With Microsoft's new forced upgrade scheme, what's a business that doesn't want to pay extra to downgrade supposed to do in this situation?