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[Jim Householder]

simon wrote:
> Richard Meyer (meyerri at westnet.com.au) wrote:
> 
> 
>>It was to PREVENT abuse, not to cause his own brand thereof. Sheesh!!!
> 
> 
> There is a big difference between Linus registering Linux as a trademark to
> prevent abuse, and Linus handing off the control of the trademark to an
> organisation who will start collecting license fees.
> 
> The type of abuse you mentioned could easily have been avoided by simply
> registering the trademark. What we are talking about here is completely
> different.

According to what PJ writes, it is not sufficient to merely register a 
name.  It needs to be *actively* protected or you can lose it, and one 
major way to protect is to charge fees.  This has to do with *law*, not 
revenue raising.

Jim