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Red Hat's war on RHEL

Red Hat's war on RHEL

Posted Mar 9, 2008 17:05 UTC (Sun) by djreedps (guest, #50980)
Parent article: Red Hat's war on RHEL

I'm almost certain that Hormel would rather not have people use the name Spam which they
trademarked for their delicious lunch meat product to refer to horrible, unwanted, unsolicited
emails.  I bet that Curad would rather not have people call bandages Band-aids.  And that
Puffs tissue would rather not have people call facial tissues Kleenex.  But that is how people
call things.

So Red Hat can either accept the fact that their product will always be commonly named RHEL
and there is nothing they can do to change that, or else they can rename RedHat Enterprise
Linux to something else.

This isn't the first time a company has either had its product misnamed, had the common name
given as its competitor's brand name, or else had its trademark misused, and it won't be the
last.


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