On 9/15/05, Srijit Sreekumar srijit@gmail.com wrote:
ok i admit that i dont know him as well as you do.
"Sneaky bastard" - Linus is that too in his own words. Get his quotes at: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds
Don't be foolish to imagine that "this is like a certification" and that others have to declare bankruptcy if they cannot afford to pay the licence fees Linus is demanding for merely using the word "Linux".
So many people have been quite openly and freely using "Linux" as part of their names for so many years now: "LinuxForYou" is a magazine devoted to publishing articles connected with GNU/Linux. There are so many user groups with "Linux" in their name, and at least one of them is registered as a Society. Probably there are other companies too. There are umpteen distros that are labelled with "Linux" or "GNU/Linux" which is the very name of the operating system. uname returns "Linux" and uname -o returns "GNU/Linux" to identify the system. "Linux" is just a generic name that people have been using in association with the GNU/Linux operating system, with as much freedom possible without paying tribute.
I am not one of them who knows Linus or even care that much about "Linux" here - but you now know about it, and so take care :)