rhabarba@feddit.de to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoThe Linux Foundation has become a patent trollbladerunner.socialexternal-linkmessage-square51fedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down134file-text
arrow-up1109arrow-down1external-linkThe Linux Foundation has become a patent trollbladerunner.socialrhabarba@feddit.de to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square51fedilinkfile-text
It seems that the Linux Foundation has decided that both “systemd” and “segmentation fault” (lol?) are trademarked by them.
minus-squarebluGill@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 year agoIt does matter because projects like *BSD can prove continuous usage of the term. As such either the trademark is easy to break (it is common use), or it can only be a trademark in very specific contexts that are unlikely to apply.
It does matter because projects like *BSD can prove continuous usage of the term. As such either the trademark is easy to break (it is common use), or it can only be a trademark in very specific contexts that are unlikely to apply.