Re: Linux trademark garbage

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Sun Feb 06 2000 - 20:33:45 EST


On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> >
> > Why. Last time I checked RTLinux was written by one V Yodaiken, I wouldnt
> > be suprised if he happened to be V J Yodaiken ...

Indeed.

> I'm still not sure that trademarking RTLinux is good, as the use of
> such a generic name would make forking difficult.

We (Victor, me, maddog) agreed that "Realtime Linux" should _not_ be
trademarkable, because that's too generic - while "RTLinux" is not really
any more generic than "VA Linux" for example ;)

People just think that "RTLinux" is generic because it's been used for the
code in question as a name for so long..

                Linus

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