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A couple of Linux trademark notes

A couple of Linux trademark notes

Posted Aug 23, 2005 20:50 UTC (Tue) by dannyobrien (subscriber, #25583)
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I think it's worth pointing out, in the interests of full disclosure, that Florian has worked for Blizzard in the past, which may well influence his position on the Bnetd case.

d. (who works for the EFF)


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A couple of Linux trademark notes

Posted Aug 23, 2005 21:31 UTC (Tue) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link]

After reading the above link where he further explains how he sees the matter I am now fully convinced he's been brainwashed by working there and actually believes what he's writing.

To that I would like to reply: 1) On the topic that the only reason is to enable piracy, then what is the reason to port Linux to an old SGI Indy? What is the reason to port GCC to the PDP11? Figuring out a complex protocol from net dumps is great geek credz. 2) One could just as easily say that Samba is nothing but a piracy enabler. After all, why wouldn't just somebody buy MS Server 2003? Samba is a tool to copy data between pirated versions of MS Windows.

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