On 4 Aug 2009, at 22:49, James Milligan <lak...@lake54.com> wrote:
On 4 Aug 2009, at 20:43, James Milligan <lak...@lake54.com> wrote:
Robert Longstaff wrote:
'Linux Certified,' Mr Pauling, who owns the name 'Linux', might be
interested. How do I contact him, or his organisation, whatever
it is?
You could contact Linus Pauling. However, he has been dead
for fifteen years and I suspect couldn't care less.
robert_
According to http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/
<http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/linus/> his address is
torva...@osdl.org but that's only from a couple of seconds looking on
Google (contact linus torvalds)
James
Actually just looking at Wikipedia, that's where the confusion could
be :-)
Of course probably everyone knew that and I'm looking daft right now
as i'm typing this.
Sorry for HTML etc - typing this from iPhone and can't edit it as
such.
James
Wikipedia quote:
Torvalds was named afterLinus Pauling, the American Nobel Prize-
winning chemist, although in the book Rebel Code: Linux and the Open
Source Revolution, Torvalds is quoted as saying, "I think I was
named equally forLinus the Peanuts cartoon character," noting that
this makes him half "Nobel-prize-winning chemist" and half "blanket-
carrying cartoon character".
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Eek don't shout at me for third post!
Rowan - this may be the organisation you wish to complain to - was
also partly referenced to by Alan Pope earlier:
http://www.linuxmark.org/
They're basically the people who issue the licence to use the name etc.
James - and this is my last email tonight!
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