Many people would still call it Linux 9 or another name just to avoidRight. And they probably are rightful in protecting their brandname. All of the other distributions have huge following as well, depending on where you go. For ex here in Germany we have SuSE that almost has a 80% market-share, lot of the German government is moving to SuSE on servers desktop etc. With techies Debian is the way to go. In the super-growth embedded systems market there are Bluecat, Montavista etc, that are market leaders.
using the Redhat name. Redhat states very clearly that use of its
name is a trademark violation, and you cannot (e.g.) sell CDs and call
them Redhat Linux.
That said, we could, all of us, each compile a kernel of our choice and release a distribution with our lastname/firstname on it, give our build process a production series (aka. version number) and install it on as many PC's as we want - and bother nobody, not the inventors (Linus), not the other distributors (Redhat, SuSE etc).
Linus Torvalds is still the ONLY copyright holder of Linux and if you use "Linux 9", you are basically violating the Linux copyright that is owned by the original inventor (Linus). Not that he's going to come after you to sue, but 1) to set a proper precedent and 2) to live up to the legal agreements (ex. GPL) under which all of Linux software is provided to us for free and thus permit future incentive to maintain the wonderful status-quo of OpenSource software processes , we SHOULD be more careful/responsible in respecting the Who-Is-Who.
Jonnas
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