On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Pete Theisen wrote:
> R P Herrold wrote:
> <snip>
>> Ummm ... of course, if you stop and examine the CD, and the
>> representations, it is absolutely, positively NOT represented as Red Hat's
>> product as the item included with Negus' book --
The strong defense of the 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux' trademark
is in part a reaction to the fact that RH did not do a very
good job protecting the prior mark: 'Red Hat Linux'
They lost it, and and got burned with bad press of exactly the
sort you encountered
> That's an interesting thought, it didn't occur to me that it may not
> actually be RH 8 on the CDs, but it says Red Hat 8 on them. These are
> not hand-burned with magic marker titles or anything like that.
>
> The GPL lets people say they are distributing Red Hat when they really
> aren't? What is distributed with The RH Linux bible, anyway?
The GPL is not all of the story -- Copyright and trademark
also come into play, as a distribution contains much more than
just GPL content.
-- Russ Herrold
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