Story: 'Linux' trademark doesn't matter, says Stallman
Posted by: Anonymous (Sunday 28 August 2005, 10:36 AM)
To anonymous consultant: Trademarks do not implement any of the freedoms to: run it, study it, change it, redistribute it, and distribute modified versions. Copyright + the right license does. Trademarks are pretty orthogonal to these. Please elaborate on how having or not having registered a trademark affects the freedom to run or study some code. And if I have to rename something to redistribute it in modified form, it's a nuisance, but hardly a help. Trademarks only help brand recognition, something possibly even counterproductive in free software.
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