zxq9 wrote on 6/13/2012 12:32 AM: > On 06/13/2012 06:44 AM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > >> (On this list, are we really required to say "TUV" instead of "***censored***", >> as if we were playing a 1984 double-speak live action game?) > > Yes, because lawyers have made even casual conversation a legal minefield for > reasons other than getting disappeared by the Thought Police. > > Pretty much anything trademarked, burdened by customer guarantees of any sort, > or otherwise encumbered in any way should be referred to obliquely on this list. > This sounds silly, I know, but the reason is that the labs who support this > project don't have the bandwidth or the desire to even open a conversation about > how to open a proper, legal, trade protections unencumbered conversation, and to > that end terms like "TUV" are used around here. > > Not that TUV is a bad player -- *far* from it -- but why even open the door in > case the wind starts blowing the other way? Could someone who maintains this list (Connie? Pat?) please confirm or deny this seemingly absurd policy! I have not searched the archives of this list, but of the 1824 messages I have saved locally over the years, for one reason or another, 333 of them contain "Redhat" in the body of the message, while another 74 contain "Red Hat". I don't recall anyone ever getting their typing fingers slapped. Thanks! -- P. Larry Nelson (217-244-9855) | Systems/Network Administrator 461 Loomis Lab | High Energy Physics Group 1110 W. Green St., Urbana, IL | Physics Dept., Univ. of Ill. MailTo:[log in to unmask] | http://www.roadkill.com/lnelson/ ------------------------------------------------------------------- "Information without accountability is just noise." - P.L. Nelson