[Techtalk] One Standardized Version of Linux

[Travis Casey]

Monday, May 06, 2002, 3:34:00 AM, BUNTER MATTHEW wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 10:25:01PM +0100, /dev/null wrote:

>>> there isnt centralised 'control'... and when there is, in the case of
>>> Linus's work, he's known to be a 'benign dictator'... and people can,
>>> as you say, always go off and do their own things with the ideas if
>>> they want something different....
>>
>> And not only can they do their own thing with the ideas, they can do
>> their own thing with the actual source code.
>>
>> There is nothing stoping me having my own version of the Linux kernel :)

> Sorry don't follow here. I thought that the trademark of 'Linux' was
> owned by Linus. Doesn't this mean that he has saw over how the name is
> used?

These are two different things, though.  The previous poster wrote
that she could make her own version of the Linux kernel -- that's
true.  Since Linus owns the trademark, she can't *call* it Linux
without his permission, but since the code is under GPL, she can
modify it and redistribute it, and there's nothing Linus can do about
that.

-- 
Travis Casey
efindel at earthlink.net