Star Torvalds Demands $5000 for the Use of Linux Name
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 19th Aug 2005 18:44 UTC
Law and Order More than 90 Australian companies have been asked to pay a licence fee for Linux software in a move apparently backed by Linus Torvalds. Letters demanding US$5000 for use of the Linux name were originally dismissed as a hoax. But according to the Sydney Morning Herald, Linus Torvalds is dead serious.
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RE: Red Hat/SUSE/ect
by pr0c on Fri 19th Aug 2005 19:08 UTC in reply to "Red Hat/SUSE/ect"
pr0c
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2005-07-06

No.

http://www.linuxmark.org/fees.html

For Profit/Other Tier 1
[This is a "grandfather clause" for written sublicenses executed prior to August 1, 2004]
Annual Fee = $0

And yet there is not a "grandfather clause" for non profit...

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