Ho Chaw Ming wrote:
On legal grounds they have to object. If not they lose the rights to the trademark if they ever need to go to court to fight a case. Their lawyers would be the one jumping up and down and for good reason. They have to keep their trademark (or lose the rights to it by simply not objecting others usage of it)
I disagree. If they were only interested in protecting their trademark, they wouldn't have thrown in that crazy line about not linking to their website without permission.
I don't get it. Red Hat has been pissing off their community for about a year now. Would somebody care to explain to me how that makes good business sense?
I guess that Microsoft is ecstatic. If Red Hat pisses off enough customers, it weakens linux as a whole.
Just my $0.02,
Ben