Way back when, it used to be that those who burned CD-Rs from the downloaded Red Hat Linux ISOs and sold them (i.e. CheapBytes) were allowed to refer to those CDs as "Red Hat Linux" just so long as they didn't refer to them as "Offical Red Hat Linux," a trademark reserved for Red Hat's retail distribution. For whatever reason, Red Hat stopped this practice, and now CheapBytes <http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart>, LinuxCD <http://www.linuxcd.org/view_item.php?id_version=236>, and OSDisc <http://www.osdisc.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi/index.html> refer to their Red Hat CD-R by pseudonyms. Now as long as Red Hat sold CDs by retail, this was not such a bad situation. Those who didn't know that "Pink Tie," "Red Tux," and "Blue Jacket" were just Red Hat in disguise could simply buy their CDs from Red Hat, if downloading and burning the ISOs wasn't an option. However, with Red Hat now only making the ISOs available for download, the only ones who can provide CDs for those who can't make their own are CheapBytes and its ilk--and CheapBytes and its ilk are forbidden to call their Red Hat CDs by their true names. This is a recipe for confusion. IMHO, what is needed is some trademark policy that specifically allows CheapBytes, etc. to name future RHL CDs in a non-obfuscatory fashion, so that potential RHL users can actually *find* the CDs. Maybe a trademark specifically for CheapBytes and similar resellers, i.e. "Downloaded Red Hat Linux"? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
