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Petition to Cancel

Petition to Cancel

Posted Aug 25, 2005 7:46 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Petition to Cancel by giraffedata
Parent article: Trademarks and F/OSS

Plus, if you read the petition, it basically comes down to "Linux is a generic term of art for Linux". In other words, it is NOT generic as far as trademark law is concerned.

And that's why it's been trademarked - to keep it away from being "trademark generic" but still "a generic term for Linux".

Cheers,
Wol


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