Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 27th Oct 2009 11:02 UTC
The Haiku alpha is barely out the door, and we already have another important news item about the open source reimplementation of the BeOS. About 18 months ago, Evgeny Abdraimov started porting the Qt4 graphical toolkit to Haiku, and now, we ave some seriously epic screenshots showing a multitude of Qt4 applications running in Haiku, as well as a developer preview release.
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More precisely (at least as far as I have understood the situation, IANAL etc.) there is a Linux trademark which you have to license from Linus (or the linuxmark organisation, for that matter) in order to use the name "Linux" in your product name, with older cases of useage grandfathered in. So, if you want to call your product/distro "Super Linux", you have to get a license for the Linux trademark. "Supernux", "Supuntu", "nixisuper" are not affected by this regulation, nor will be anybody who refers to a hypothetical "Supix" distro simply as "Linux".
In the same way, there is afaik no way the Haiku devs can prevent (legally, that is) anybody from calling their distro "Haibuntu", "HaiQt", "Poem OS" etc. . And short of monitoring forums and newsgroups and correcting people politely who (erronously) refer to this (again, hypothetical, I don't want to be accused of giving anybody the incentiative to start one of these) distros as "Haiku", there is nothing that will prevent people to use the same sloppy name convention wrt Haiku distros that they tend to already use with Linux based operating systems.