Re: Devlinks. Code. (Dcache abuse?)
Erik Andersen (andersen@codepoet.org)
Mon, 19 Nov 2001 04:05:06 -0700
On Mon Nov 19, 2001 at 10:17:29AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > As I understand trademarks, they are granted for a particular context.
> > There is no conflict between "Dove" as a brand name for soap, "Dove"
> > as a brand name for chocolate, and "Dove" as used by bird watchers in
> > their taxonomy.
>
> We have already had a vendor threaten legal action if we didn't change the
> name of a file system before merging it with the kernel.
Sore losers I guess. :-)
-Erik
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