[CentOS] Re: Linux Trademarked?

[Peter Farrow]

"principle" I believe is the applicable word here....

:-)


Scot L. Harris wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 23:04, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>>Bryan J. Smith wrote:
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>>>On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 19:03 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
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>>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.
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>>The engineers gritted their teeth, and did a massive search
>>and edit to modify the source.
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>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.  :)
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