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Thats fine but they renamed Linus to Linux on the CD. Instead of being Linus torvald he is now Linux Torvalds :-). Anthony On Wed, 17 May 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote: > That is correct. A few years ago some sleazy Boston attorney registered > Linux as a trademark and sent letters to some of the businesses that > write code or produice distributions. Linux International (eg. Maddog Hall) > led the fight to regain the Linux trademark. I didn't keep up with the legal > battle, but from a legal standpoint, they probably were able to establish > Linus as the most legitimate owner of the name. > > On 17 May 2000, at 8:44, Anthony J. Gabrielson wrote: > > > Hello, > > I was just taking a peak at the CodeWarrior for Linux cd. It says > > something I found interesting - "Linux is a registered trademark of Linux > > Torvalds". I got a kick out of it, I guess it doesn't take much :-). > \ > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> > Associate Director > Boston Linux and Unix user group > http://www.blu.org > - > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the > message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored). > - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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