linux-kernel - Re: Need to pay to use the word "Linux" in commercial products/services!

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Date:	Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:52:24 -0500
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@...masters.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	andy <rootstrap@...glemail.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Need to pay to use the word "Linux" in commercial products/services!

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
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