No Charge for Using Linux

OK, some of you have probably heard news that Australian companies have been charged for using Linux. NewsForge (one of my favorite Linux news sites) reports that buisnesses got charged for using the Linux trademark in their buisness name.

NewsForge goes on to report:

This is not news. It's been this way for years. Linux International, headed up by Jon "maddog" Hall, was set up primarily to protect the Linux trademark from being hijacked by a commercial IP pirate. All that has happened in Australia is that firms are finally being asked to pay for the use of a trademarked term.

NewsForge Article

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