[AktiviX] Is Capital taking over Linux?

[Paul Mobbs]

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On Tuesday 04 November 2003 23:56, Chris Croome wrote:
> All the FUD over Redhat and the Fedora Project inspired me
> to write an article:
>
>   Is Capital taking over Linux?
>
>   The latest version of Red Hat Linux will be out this
>   week and it will be called Fedora 1 not Red Hat 10, also
>   SuSE Linux has just been brought by Novell and this has
>   been bankrolled by IBM. What is happening here and what
>   does it mean for the world's most popular versions of
>   the free GNU/Linux computer operating system?
>
>   http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2003/11/279908.html


It's because of trademark problems. They have to defend their trademark or 
they lose it, so letting evryone just party with the name  "Red Hat", without 
and specific legal license to do this, causes legal problems in trademark 
law.

Don't forget, trademark, patents and database rights are distinct from 
copyright in law -- and as yey the free software community hasn't found a way 
to address these.



P.


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