Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Mar 2003 07:14:55 -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 04:10:49PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 14:43, Larry McVoy wrote: > > 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. > > I thought you were above deliberately tangling unrelated questions to > try and make a bogus point. Lets think about this clearly. > > "XYZ runs on Red Hat Linux" > "XYZ reads Red Hat Linux RPM databases" > "XYZ imports Oracle Databases into Bananavision" > > versus > > "Larry's Red Hat Linux"
I thought you were above deliberately tangling unrelated questions to try and distract from my perfectly valid point.
"BitBucket: GPL-ed BitKeeper clone" "The goal of this project is to produce a system compatible with BitKeeper"
Let's try a little simple substitution since you seem to be needing coffee this morning:
"Red Cap: a proprietary Red Hat clone" "The goal of this system is to produce a system compatible with Red Hat"
Go run those statements by your lawyers, Alan, and then please report what they said back here. -- --- 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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