[CentOS] Re: Linux Trademarked?

[Scot L. Harris]

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 23:04, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 19:03 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:

> After the engineers complained that there would be a massive
> editing effort to modify *comments*, the lawyers of Company A
> and Company B got together, studied the law, and concluded
> that, to comply with the law, Company A must perforce modify
> all documents, including non-disclosed proprietary trade
> secret source, even in comments, so that the now trademarked
> term did not appear anywhere.
> 
> The engineers gritted their teeth, and did a massive search
> and edit to modify the source.

This sounds like you had really bad lawyers (shades of gray I know) that
acceded to the request of the other company.  Probably as a quick way to
just settle the complaint.  In other words it would have cost more to
defend against the complaint than it cost to give in.  :)