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Originally Posted by brundles
The original story is posted here. Apparently the people at Xbox-Scene tried this with Unix and Linux and both got rejected:
There is some speculation that it might be because Linux is apparently a copyrighted word. |
The term Linux is a trademark and as I understand it copyright is a whole different bunch of bananas and wouldn't apply here. Also significant sections of the Linux community went to law back in the 1990s to secure Linus Torvalds ownership of the trademark in order for it to be freely used by companies and individuals everywhere.
Therefore I think this is more to do with M$'s overt hostility to everything Linux and Open Source. They may say: "Oh you can't use that because it's a trademark" but they know very well that neither Mr Torvalds nor anyone else in the Linux community would bat an eyelid let alone go to law over something like this.
Get your own back: install Ubuntu on your PC!
