Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Mar 2003 06:43:47 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Never ever use word BitKeeper if Larry does not like you |
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:50:55PM +0100, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2003-03-14T11:51:32, > Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> said: > > > As for it being on your own time, let's see if SuSE wants the negative > > publicity. I'm quite willing to make a stink, you've annoyed me and > > I've put up with as much as I'm going to. > > Ok, Larry, you have finally done the coyote stunt. Please report how it really > feels, stepping of the cliff.
It feels just fine, perhaps because I haven't stepped off any cliff.
You might want to stop and consider what SuSE would do if someone decided they didn't like SuSE and came up with a pathetic shell script and started describing it as "a system compatible with SuSE". I'm pretty sure that your lawyers would be all over them in about 30 seconds. Ditto for Red Hat, Alan. I believe it is your founder who has carefully explained to all of us the importance of brand. In fact, isn't the point that Red Hat is nothing *but* brand? So how fast would I get sued if I came out with "Larry's Red Hat Linux"? Pretty fast, right?
I stand behind my statements. If you don't like them, oh, darn. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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