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Sitting here looking at https://micahflee.com/2013/11/canonical-shouldnt-abuse-trademark-law-to-silence-critics-of-its-priva... and also at a grep `Ubuntu -r .` in certain source trees with 3000+ hits.
Remember *nix, Canonical?
Remember *nix, Canonical?
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@joeyh, while your joke-patch is funny, I hope you realize that kowtowing to Canonical, Ltd. on this gives them what they want.
Also, they presumably have Canonical trademarked too -- which is getting to my point about their cooption of common words.
@bkuhn It's giving them what they asked for in a sense, but not what they want... @joeyh is turning canonical's actions into worse PR for them, and I think that's a "I regret getting what I asked for" moment.
@bkuhn, If Canonical is trademarked, then "Mark Shuttleworth's Debian Derivative" seems like a good alias name for Debian Derivative by Canonical that cannot be named.