[Consortium] Linux trademark

[Andreas Kuckartz]

I remember quite a few statements stressing that preventing abuse was the only
reason for the trademark registration.

Interestingly the "Linux Mark Institute" does not inform the visitors of the
website how they intend to use the money.

Linus should be asked to stop this immediately. His own credibility is at stake
here.

Cheers,
Andreas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel James" <daniel at linuxaudio.org>
To: <consortium at lists.linuxaudio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:33 PM
Subject: [Consortium] Linux trademark


> Hello all,
>
> The Linux Mark Institute, now part of OSDL it seems, is attempting to
> charge organisations which use Linux in their name - even non-profits
> like linuxaudio.org:
>
> http://www.linuxmark.org/forms/linux_licence_doc.html#Check1
>
> I think we should resist this move on principle. It may only be US
> $200 per year at the moment for a non-profit, but I don't think it's
> really in the spirit of free software to go round mugging people for
> money like this. I thought the name Linux was trademarked to prevent
> it from abuse.
>
> Cheers
>
> Daniel
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