IMNSHO this has nothing to do with protecting one's trademark. Read their own site: http://www.redhat.com/about/corporate/trademark/guidelines/page3.html This is a bullying tactic at best. The company I work for has had to enforce our trademark. We sure never did so in regards to linking back to our site or in referencing our trademark by derivatives applications that used our code though. That's a joke. Using a trademark in a domain name is different then saying "I'm derived from Red Hat." Business has 0 to do with loyalty when billions of dollars are at stake. "We" owe them nothing outside of what had been done prior to this idiotic move by their lawyers. I don't think their demands should be met, and I would refuse if it were me. A > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at caosity.org [mailto:centos-bounces at caosity.org] On > Behalf Of Ho Chaw Ming > Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 1:10 PM > To: 'CentOS discussion and information list' > Subject: RE: [Centos] Red Hat Legal Targets www.centos.org website content > > 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) > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at caosity.org [mailto:centos-bounces at caosity.org] On > Behalf Of Tony Wicks > Sent: 15 February 2005 02:01 > To: CentOS discussion and information list > Subject: Re: [Centos] Red Hat Legal Targets www.centos.org website content > > For many years I have run the primary Redhat Mirror server in New Zealand, > about seven years ago I registered redhat.co.nz (ftp.redhat.co.nz still > works) and this is what most people used to access the site (that is what > was listed on the Redhat mirror list on their website). about 3 years ago > all of a sudden Redhat started jumping up and down saying that > (understandably) I couldn't use their trademark so I changed it to > something > else. They were really quite nice about it in a gruff sort of way (ok, > they > gave me tshirts and hats) and I haven't heard from them since. I would not > assume because they want to make sure they are the only ones authorising > the > use of their trademarks that they have any more sinister intentions. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos