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Story: Torvalds wades into Linux trademark row
Posted by: brian (Monday 22 August 2005, 4:35 PM)
What else could could Torvalds do?
If he does not trademark Linux then some unscrupulous toady will do so. If he has the trademark then he MUST enforce it by law. How should he pay for this? Out of his own pocket?
Why should he pay? He has already done us a massive service by producing Linux in the first place and getting that particular ball rolling. Is he supposed to bank-roll us as well?
The whole thing should be self funding at the very least and the sums involved are trivial compared to patent "cease-and-desist" cases. Look and Blackberry being stung for $450m or Microsoft for $521m by Eolas. $5000 is chicken feed.
So stop wingeing and be glad that SCO or Microsoft did not trademark Linux because Linus had not bothered. Now THAT would produce squeals of outrage.
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