Company names

Posted Jan 15, 2026 7:40 UTC (Thu) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418)
In reply to: Company names by corbet
Parent article: SFC v. VIZIO: who can enforce the GPL?

> I don't quite see how Walmart would benefit from this..?

Vizio is just a brand name owned by Walmart now. There are 1000 reasons Walmart wouldn't want to be known as the one funding this lawsuit. Remember that Microsoft funded SCO lawsuits and then they put out an ad campaign about how they <3 Linux? Don't be dense.