Re: Is there a Linux trademark issue with sun?

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Fri Dec 15 2000 - 08:54:10 EST


On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Rob Landley wrote:

> Heads up everybody. Scott McNealy has apparently been
> calling Solaris Sun's implementation of Linux.
> Trademark violation time.
>
> The article's here:
>
> http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-12-14-020-04-NW-CY
>
> Quick quote:
>
> >When asked by a reporter why Sun's new clustering
> >software was restricted to Solaris and not available
> >on Linux, McNealy's aggravation seemed to peak. "You
> >people just don't get it, do you? All Linux
> >applications run on Solaris, which is our
> >implementation of Linux. Now ask the question again,"

I wouldn't worry about this. It's only a question of time
before people will start to ask him why Sun isn't shipping
the "original Linux" but has their own, strange, version ;)

cheers,

Rik

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