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  From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
  To  : David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:00:09 +1030

Re: "linus killing linux" article

On Saturday, 27 January 2001 at 23:45:47 +1030, David Newall wrote:
>> In my opinion, linux could become some sort
>> of open standard watched over by an itnernational
>> standards body.
>
> Only if Linus agrees.  I think if somebody tried to
> call something "Linux", that wasn't what *he* calls
> "Linux," he'd find plenty of people to back him in a
> law suit.  And he'd win, because he owns the name (a
> fact that the article already pointed out.)

So they get his agreement.  I've seen a reasonable scenario in an
editorial in c't a few months back.  It's at
http://www.heise.de/ct/00/20/003/, but it's in German, and I don't
feel like translating the whole thing.  Here one section, though:

  e-Linux for e-Business is based on an initiative by IBM Fellow Linus
  Torvalds, who began while still a student to build an operating
  system kernel for his business critical applications.

Greg
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