Copyright and trademark law have as much (or as little) to do with each other as maritime and anti-trust law do. On May 16, 2011, at 4:26 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: > I would think Paul Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox predate copyright restrictions. > > That very trustworthy source of Wikipedia says he was first documented in 1910 and became part of an advertisement in 1916. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bunyan > > On May 16, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Thomas Lunde wrote: > >> Jason - >> >> I love that you're promoting Linux, so please take this friendly suggestion in that spirit. >> >> The Minnesota Vikings, Twins, et al are _required_ to come after you for using their registered trademarks without their permission on pain of losing their rights to those marks. >> >> I've never heard of a company called Blue Ox Software or Blue Ox Linux -- I'm thinking of Babe, here -- so that might be available for you to use without inviting a lawsuit. It wouldn't be a bad idea to check, though, before you get too attached to any given name. >> >> Have fun with your distribution! >> Thomas >> >> >> On May 15, 2011, at 11:19 PM, Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for your suggestions. I think I'll use the sound of a Vikings or Twins victory. I'm very confident that such a sound clip would fire up many prospective Swift Linux users of every demographic group without offending anyone. Thus, I won't be using the sound of the woodchipper from _Fargo_. >>> >>> I think Linux needs more special editions. It's about marketing, something that Linux has been sorely lacking. I think Hannah Montana Linux was a great idea, and that's my inspiration for these special editions. The Linux community needs to reach the young. After all, religions, pro sports teams, Hershey, General Mills, Jostens, Best Buy, McDonald's, Microsoft, and Apple always do it. The Communists did it. That gloried drug cartel called the tobacco industry does it (albeit in much sneakier ways). >>> >>> -- >>> Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list