On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:24:11PM -0700, Neil Schneider wrote: > It needs to be protected from unscrupulous freeloaders who would > trademark it themselves and then sue every distribution vendor and > anyone else, including Linus, they think has money, to collect a > "trademark fee" for using something they had nothing to do with > producing. It happened before and likely would happen again.
but wouldn't it be enough to have it registered to stop that? once it is registered nobody else can register it. it could happen that the registrar looses the trademark because it was not protected against bad use, but in such a case anyone else still would not be able to reregister it, or would they? greetings, martin. -- cooperative communication with sTeam - caudium, pike, roxen and unix offering: programming, training and administration - anywhere in the world -- pike programmer travelling and working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (caudium|gotpike).org is.schon.org Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
