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Indeed, Linux is probably the most famous. It's trademarked because someone else tried to trademark "Linux" and then shake down vendors for 10%. It went to cour
by Oxidation 4y ago
Indeed, Linux is probably the most famous. It's trademarked because someone else tried to trademark "Linux" and then shake down vendors for 10%. It went to court, the trademark troll lost and the trademark itself was assigned to Torvalds.
It's now administered by the Linux Mark Institute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mark_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Mark_Institute
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- haunter 4y agoThat made me wonder, UNIX is also trademarked https://unix.org/trademark.html https://unix.org/trademark.html And there are handful of OSes registered as UNIX Certified https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/ Yet there is no single "UNIX OS"
- Oxidation 4y agoThe AT&T Unix is probably "the" Unix, if there is one, but the name got sold eventually to The Open Group which licenses it to compliant systems. So it's now a bit more like x86 (family of similar products that work somewhat similarly, though x86 doesn't need a license any more) rather than Pentium (a product or range from a specific company).