You've got to be kidding here. How many copies of "non-official" RedHat get sold on Amazon daily?
Why are they going after the vendor who's selling a CD or two a week on Amazon, when the same exact thing is being sold on Walnut Creek, Cheapbytes, etc?
If it was a real trademark issue, they'd try to force everyone to stop using the RedHat name, not some schmuck selling on Amazon. Even if they did, they'd most likely contact him directly, and not leave it to Amazon to handle it.
Using a "brain calorie" or two, the most logical answer is some idiot bought the RH Distro from this Amazon vendor, failed to get RH support because it wasn't the $80 boxed set, and called Amazon.
It's not a hard theory to understand, if you figure the buyer probably thought that if it said RedHat he'd get support from RedHat.
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You've got to be kidding here. How many copies of
"non-official" RedHat get sold on Amazon daily?
Why are they going after the vendor who's selling a CD or two a week on Amazon, when the same exact thing is being sold on Walnut Creek, Cheapbytes, etc?
If it was a real trademark issue, they'd try to force everyone to stop using the RedHat name, not some schmuck selling on Amazon. Even if they did, they'd most likely contact him directly, and not leave it to Amazon to handle it.
Using a "brain calorie" or two, the most logical answer is some idiot bought the RH Distro from this Amazon vendor, failed to get RH support because it wasn't the $80 boxed set, and called Amazon.
It's not a hard theory to understand, if you figure the buyer probably thought that if it said RedHat he'd get support from RedHat.