On 1/10/06, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 15:28, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > > > > Perhaps RH will sue the "RH clone" builders if they include a > > > redhat-release rpm or /etc/redhat-release file? It would seem rather silly. > > > > While it would be rather silly ... we have been told not to make redhat- > > release say Trademarked things :) > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > I'm not a lawyer, but I thought that if you wanted to keep your > trademark you had to keep it from being used as a generic term. > If third party apps must use the trademarked reference when > they really want to test for a generic compatible OS, they've > done something wrong. There was a time when the only way to > get aspirin was to ask for a trademarked brand name... > The applications only want to support the actual Prominent North American... or what ever we should call them. -- Leonard Isham, CISSP Ostendo non ostento.