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IMHO the proper purpose of trademarks should be to prevent consumer confusion. From that perspective, it’s absurd to have to dance around mentioning a trademark

IMHO the proper purpose of trademarks should be to prevent consumer confusion. From that perspective, it’s absurd to have to dance around mentioning a trademark in a context where you’re explicitly stating that your product is different from it.

0xcde4c3db 5y ago
Tell that to Red Hat's lawyers [1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20071114044958/http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=66 https://web.archive.org/web/20071114044958/http://www.centos...
- protomyth 5y ago
  I rather doubt IBM's lawyers are more friendly about trademark use.
  - selectodude 5y ago
    Better safe than to wake up the Nazgul.
phkahler 5y ago
>> From that perspective, it’s absurd to have to dance around mentioning a trademark in a context where you’re explicitly stating that your product is different from it. I don't think being a downstream release of RedHat very different from it. In fact, that's kind of the point.