[ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?

James Milligan lake54 at lake54.com
Tue Aug 4 23:12:32 BST 2009


On 4 Aug 2009, at 22:49, James Milligan <lake54 at lake54.com> wrote:

> On 4 Aug 2009, at 20:43, James Milligan <lake54 at lake54.com> wrote:
>
>> Robert Longstaff wrote:
>>>> 'Linux Certified,' Mr Pauling, who owns the name 'Linux', might be
>>>> interested. How do I contact him, or his organisation, whatever  
>>>> it is?
>>>>
>>>
>>> You could contact Linus Pauling. However, he has been dead
>>> for fifteen years and I suspect couldn't care less.
>>>
>>>
>>> robert_
>>>
>> According to http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/
>> <http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/linus/> his address is
>> torvalds at osdl.org but that's only from a couple of seconds looking on
>> Google (contact linus torvalds)
>>
>> James
>
> Actually just looking at Wikipedia, that's where the confusion could  
> be :-)
>
> Of course probably everyone knew that and I'm looking daft right now  
> as i'm typing this.
>
> Sorry for HTML etc - typing this from iPhone and can't edit it as  
> such.
>
> James
>
> Wikipedia quote:
>
> Torvalds was named afterLinus Pauling, the American Nobel Prize- 
> winning chemist, although in the book Rebel Code: Linux and the Open  
> Source Revolution, Torvalds is quoted as saying, "I think I was  
> named equally forLinus the Peanuts cartoon character," noting that  
> this makes him half "Nobel-prize-winning chemist" and half "blanket- 
> carrying cartoon character".
> -- 
>
Eek don't shout at me for third post!

Rowan - this may be the organisation you wish to complain to - was  
also partly referenced to by Alan Pope earlier:

http://www.linuxmark.org/

They're basically the people who issue the licence to use the name etc.

James - and this is my last email tonight!
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