On 01/15/2014 03:37 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:34 PM, John R. Dennison <j...@gerdesas.com> wrote:
Red Hat does not "own" CentOS, either the product nor the project. Red
Hat does not own the various marks.
Wrong.
http://www.centos.org/legal/trademarks/
"The CentOS Marks are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc."
- Pat
Reading the URL referenced above that is from 2014 (hence, presumably
post CentOS/TUV announcement), CentOS is owned by RedHat.
How will SL (Fermilab/CERN) or PUIAS / Springdale Linux (Princeton
University and the Institute for Advanced Study) professionally
distributed "unsupported" linuxes continue? Will TUV still distribute
SRPMs from which to rebuild a non-TUV supported product? Will only RH
CentOS be able easily to rebuild TUV source?
How exactly does a for-profit corporation buy an endeavor such as
CentOS? Could RH buy SL from Fermilab/CERN? Would RH attempt to
influence the USA Congress (lobby -- the USA having one of the best
elected governments that money can buy) to defund the SL effort from
Fermilab? Presumably such an effort would be more difficult for CERN
that is funded much more internationally than Fermilab.
Yasha Karant
