> And to keep your example of Linus Torvalds, you can check, he owns the name Linux because it originally was his project. There are many long-standing forks o

> And to keep your example of Linus Torvalds, you can check, he owns the name Linux because it originally was his project. There are many long-standing forks of the Linux kernel that don't change all of the source code to remove the name "Linux". I don't see Linus pitching a fit over them. > And I repeat if people disagree they fork and use their own name. People have forked it (e.g. MultiMarkdown, Github flavored Markdown), and Gruber hasn't complained about them (at least not publicly).