[Techtalk] One Standardized Version of Linux

[kansas_kennedy at phreaker.net]

Well....it's true that under Linux we can change the source code and make it 
fit to our use. But truly how many of us are really capable of doing this? 

It takes a hell load to hack the source code. You have to be a genius in C.

On Monday 06 May 2002 16:31, you wrote:
> 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.