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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GNU/Linux is not a brand, it's a philosophy
by on Fri 19th Aug 2005 19:09 UTC in reply to "Good!"

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"You are paying to use a very strong brand name. I dowubt that even RMS would object to that."

Linux is not a brand name, it's a philosophy. And from what I can tell Linus urge to control the name conflicts with the philosophy

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