[CLUE-Tech] Trademark

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 14:31, Evan Widger wrote:
> that's funny. ironic. and a very interesting comment.
> 
> about 5 years ago i thought redhat was /the/ producer of linux. it was the
> only distro i had heard of (i hadn't even installed it, just heard that it
> was some operating system like unix and i saw the redhat boxes at staples)
> and the first book i bough was the red hat linux bible with a CD in the back
> of redhat 6.1

You're not the only one... I still see people who say they're using
"Linux 8.0" or something like that. ("Do you mean *Red Hat* 8.0?"
"Ohhhh!") 

> of course by that time i'd learned of the other distros, but i still think
> that for the uninitiated, redhat is probably one of the strongest trademarks
> for a linux product.

Even for the initiated, it's a very strong trademark... 

Zonker
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