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nottorpyesterday at 7:17 PM1 replyview on HN

"Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds".

So you can fork all you want, but he can legally prevent you from calling it "Linux".


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ryandrakeyesterday at 7:24 PM

So, Linus himself can force someone to take down their mirrored kernel tarball? Wild. I suppose I learned something today.

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