[Cialug] Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor Partners with Competitor

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

On 2014-01-10 at 12:51:29 Todd Walton wrote:
> I never could understand why it would be like that to begin with.  I
> mean, Ubuntu calls Debian Debian, right?  And Mint calls Ubuntu
> Ubuntu.  If that's the name, isn't it just being honest to call it
> that?

Red Hat requires derivatives to respect its copyrights and trademarks by 
doing things such as stripping out references to Red Hat and removing 
any Red Hat logos and such. Not naming "Red Hat" is probably part of the 
logo-stripping process. I think it is a bit extreme, but CentOS wants to 
play it really safe and never have to worry about getting sued. I 
imagine a free distribution would have trouble defending themselves, 
since the legal system requires a lot of money. They are just playing it 
safe.

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