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Linux Needs Money to Defend Itself

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As reported in this post to the Open Source Blog at ZDNet, the Linux Mark Institute (LMI), which was formed to protect the Linux Trademark from abuse, is now starting to enforce licensing of the Linux Trademark for commercial purposes. Unfortunately, it’s initial efforts are not going over well with some of the Open Source community.

Last month, a lawyer on behalf of the Australian affiliate of the LMI sent letters to about 90 different companies demanding that they pay licensing fees for their use of the Linux Trademark. Of course, this immediately prompted responses that Linus Torvalds is trying to charge for Linux and make a profit.

This is just not the case. As Torvalds has stated, he does not get one cent from the LMI and historically the LMI has always lost money. All they are trying to do is protect Linux from being “hijacked” by an individual or company for their own financial gain.

It’s funny how quickly we have forgotten what once happened before with the Linux trademark. Back in 1994, an individual filed for and was granted the Linux Trademark and immediately began to send out letters to anybody even remotely connected to Linux demanding a licensing fee of 25% of their revenues for use of the Linux Trademark. There was a happy ending when, in 1997, the trademark was assigned to Linus Torvalds.

All Linus and the LMI are trying to do is stop anything like this from happening again — no profit, no gain, just protecting Linux.

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One Response to “Linux Needs Money to Defend Itself”

  1. Linux Trademark Letter Gets Positive Results Says:
    August 31st, 2005 at 1:07 pm

    […] The Linux Trademark Letter that was sent out last month (you can read more about that letter here) on behalf of the Linux Mark Institute (LMI) is apparently receiving a positive response. […]

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