On 01/15/2014 03:37 PM, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:34 PM, John R. Dennison <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Red Hat does not "own" CentOS, either the product nor the project.  Red
>> Hat does not own the various marks.
> Wrong.
>
> http://www.centos.org/legal/trademarks/
>
> "The CentOS Marks are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc."
>
>   - Pat

Reading the URL referenced above that is from 2014 (hence, presumably 
post CentOS/TUV announcement), CentOS is owned by RedHat.

How will SL (Fermilab/CERN) or PUIAS / Springdale Linux (Princeton 
University and the Institute for Advanced Study) professionally 
distributed "unsupported" linuxes continue?  Will TUV still distribute 
SRPMs from which to rebuild a non-TUV supported product? Will only RH 
CentOS be able easily to rebuild TUV source?

How exactly does a for-profit corporation buy an endeavor such as 
CentOS?  Could RH buy SL from Fermilab/CERN?  Would RH attempt to 
influence the USA Congress (lobby -- the USA having one of the best 
elected governments that money can buy) to defund the SL effort from 
Fermilab?  Presumably such an effort would be more difficult for CERN 
that is funded much more internationally than Fermilab.

Yasha Karant