Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree, you can't pay 7.99$ fro the unofficial cd's and expect RH to provide any services. They already provided the service of putting out the distribution ... However, offering services for a fee for those that did not buy the official cd's

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
rpjday [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 18 Dec 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: I agree, you can't pay 7.99$ fro the unofficial cd's and expect RH to provide any services. They already provided the service of putting out the distribution ... However, offering services for a fee for those

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-26 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
rpjday [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: not that i want to flog this any further (well, ok, that's exactly what i want to do), but if red hat's complaint is that they're having to deal with people who purchased red hat elsewhere and tell them they have no official support, what about everyone who

RE: Cheapbytes

2001-12-26 Thread Green, Aaron
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 7:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cheapbytes rpjday [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 18 Dec 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: I agree, you can't pay 7.99$ fro the unofficial cd's and expect RH to provide any

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-26 Thread Dominic Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trond Eivind Glomsrød) writes: Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One obvious problem there is perception (not being in marketing, support, this is on my own behalf and my own thought, not backed by anything :): I believe the prices for those products would

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-19 Thread rpjday
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Dave Ihnat wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:06:32PM -0500, rpjday wrote: while it may drive red hat nuts to get support calls from consumers who got their red hat elsewhere, i think they just have to suck it up and put up with it. ... that's just a nuisance red

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-19 Thread Jesus Ortega (a.k.a. Nitebirdz)
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, rpjday wrote: and as has already been suggested elsewhere, red hat made an obvious mistake in discontinuing a $29 basic boxed set. now those who would have been happy to support red hat in paying for an official boxed set are undoubtedly thinking hard about shelling

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-19 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, a new posting at www.linuxtoday.com addresses the red hat trademark issue, just FYI. The direct URL being http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/12/18/1741238mode=nocomment Bye,

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-19 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/12/18/1741238mode=nocomment So UnixCD is now advertising it as RH Linux, which RedHat explicitly seems to forbid (see http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/page4.html ). Although I am not sure why one couldn't use the

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-19 Thread rpjday
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/12/18/1741238mode=nocomment So UnixCD is now advertising it as RH Linux, which RedHat explicitly seems to forbid (see http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/page4.html ). Although I

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-19 Thread Bill Carlson
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, rpjday wrote: On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: clearly, red hat itself it calling the downloaded product red hat linux, yet just as clearly, they will not be offering support for it. IMHO, red hat is just confusing the bejeezus out of everyone by

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-19 Thread Edward C. Bailey
rpjday == rpjday [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... rpjday IMHO, red hat is just confusing the bejeezus out of everyone by rpjday now. they should take a deep breath, step back, and try to come up rpjday with a coherent policy that *they* can follow. all i got out of rpjday the linuxtoday story is

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread rpjday
On 17 Dec 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: Leonard den Ottolander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cheapbytes currently announces the FTP version as: Looking for CDs containing the downloadable version of the XXX XXX Linux distribution? Hint: The name has to do with an article of

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Hello all, I was originally going to post a long description of trademark law, but rather than have people feel that my motives were more than to help shed light on how trademarks works, I decided against it. Instead, if you're unsure about how trademarks work, do what I did -- run a couple

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Robert, does this protection of the name extend to anyone who wants to, say, write a book on red hat administration, or a course? Na. They just don't want you to sell copies of their CD's as being Red Hat Linux. frankly, i don't see how red hat can prevent someone like

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Edward, I was originally going to post a long description of trademark law, but rather than have people feel that my motives were more than to help shed light on how trademarks works, I decided against it. Instead, if you're unsure about how trademarks work, do what I

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi again Ed, Instead, if you're unsure about how trademarks work, do what I did -- run a couple google searches with the appropriate search terms, and read up on it... Did you find any sites of particular interest? Could you provide us with some URLs?

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Leonard == Leonard den Ottolander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LeonardHi again Ed, Instead, if you're unsure about how trademarks work, do what I did -- run a couple google searches with the appropriate search terms, and read up on it... Leonard Did you find any sites of

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Ed, Thanx for the links. In regard to Robert's question I found an interesting link myself: http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/page3.html :). Bye, Leonard.

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Leonard == Leonard den Ottolander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Leonard The problem with this particular case is that you have a GPLed Leonard content that can be freely distributed, but there is uncertainty Leonard on how to identify the content. If people go to Cheapbytes they Leonard will

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread Edward C. Bailey
Leonard == Leonard den Ottolander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: LeonardHi Ed, Thanx for the links. In regard to Robert's question Leonard I found an interesting link myself: Leonard http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/page3.html :). Well, I'm glad you like that link. I

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread rpjday
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Hi Ed, Thanx for the links. In regard to Robert's question I found an interesting link myself: http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/page3.html :). while i am not a lawyer, i'd say that explanation pretty well

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread Dave Ihnat
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 01:06:32PM -0500, rpjday wrote: while it may drive red hat nuts to get support calls from consumers who got their red hat elsewhere, i think they just have to suck it up and put up with it. ... that's just a nuisance red hat is going to have to accept. I said it

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread Dominic Mitchell
I agree, you can't pay 7.99$ fro the unofficial cd's and expect RH to provide any services. They already provided the service of putting out the distribution ... However, offering services for a fee for those that did not buy the official cd's should bring some more revenues. It is up to RH

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread rpjday
On 18 Dec 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: I agree, you can't pay 7.99$ fro the unofficial cd's and expect RH to provide any services. They already provided the service of putting out the distribution ... However, offering services for a fee for those that did not buy the official cd's

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-18 Thread Dominic Mitchell
rpjday [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 18 Dec 2001, Dominic Mitchell wrote: and as has already been suggested elsewhere, red hat made an obvious mistake in discontinuing a $29 basic boxed set. now those who would have been happy to support red hat in paying for an official boxed set

RE: Cheapbytes

2001-12-17 Thread Carter, Shaun G
This is most likely in response to the letter from Red Hat advising that their version of Linux can be distributed, just not as the Red Hat name. Shaun -Original Message- From: Dominic Mitchell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 4:13 PM To: Redhat Subject:

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-17 Thread Manuel Camacho
I have bought from Cheapbytes in the past, and I recall they had some legal issues on labeling the CDs as RedHat. What they do is download the iso image from RedHat and burning it for sale (AFAIR, there used to be little differences on the official CDs and the images available to download

RE: Cheapbytes

2001-12-17 Thread David Talkington
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carter, Shaun G wrote: This is most likely in response to the letter from Red Hat advising that their version of Linux can be distributed, just not as the Red Hat name. Has the policy changed? I have a copy of Red Hat Linux 5.2 around here that

RE: Cheapbytes

2001-12-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi David, This is most likely in response to the letter from Red Hat advising that their version of Linux can be distributed, just not as the Red Hat name. Has the policy changed? I have a copy of Red Hat Linux 5.2 around here that was sold by MacMillan, with explicit

RE: Cheapbytes

2001-12-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, Has the policy changed? Yes. Actually no. But they are enforcing it due to support requests from people who bought FTP and/or trimmed versions. So they don't want copies of the FTP version being called Red Hat Linux any more. This makes identification of (verbatim)

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-17 Thread Michael Scottaline
On 17 Dec 2001 17:16:57 -0500 Edward C. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Has the policy changed? I have a copy of Red Hat Linux 5.2 around David here that was sold by MacMillan, with explicit support disclaimers David of course ... In those days, we had a relationship with

Re: Cheapbytes

2001-12-17 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Leonard den Ottolander [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cheapbytes currently announces the FTP version as: Looking for CDs containing the downloadable version of the XXX XXX Linux distribution? Hint: The name has to do with an article of clothing to keep your head warm. How can have I