From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
andy <rootstrap@googlemail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need to pay to use the word "Linux" in commercial products/services!
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:52:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081127165224.GK5682@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081126022150.GA1410@mit.edu>
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 09:21:50PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> Trademarks are specific to a specific area. My favorite example was
> the British advertisements for vacuum cleaners, "Nothing sucks like a
> Vax" back when I was hacking BSD 4.3 systems on a Digital Vax/750. Of
> course there can be problems when companies expand beyond their
> original areas of their trademark registration --- hence the conflict
> between Apple Computers, Inc., and Apple Corps (a holding company
> which owned Apple Records and the copyrights to Beatle's music) when
> Apple started expanding into their iPod and iTunes store business.
Or when they added speakers to even allow any music to be played.
--
Len Sorensen
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-27 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-25 22:39 andy
2008-11-25 22:43 ` Kok, Auke
2008-11-25 22:51 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-11-25 22:45 ` david
2008-11-25 22:57 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-26 0:24 ` Jon Masters
2008-11-26 2:21 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-27 16:52 ` Lennart Sorensen [this message]
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