____/ ray on Friday 05 October 2007 19:22 : \____
> On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:18:04 +0200, Attila wrote:
>
>> This is a spawn of Roy's posting about Openoffice & Symphony. The article by
>> Bruce Byfield states, "Available for both GNU/Linux and Windows XP and
>> Vista..." It seemed to me that Symphony was only available for a small
>> subset of Linux distros so I went back and checked the Symphony system
>> requirements. Here they are:
>>
>> Lotus Symphony supports both Microsoft Windows® and Linux® platforms.
>>
>> Note: Be sure your system meets these client system requirements:
>>
>> * Supported Windows platforms: Windows XP, Windows Vista
>> * Supported Linux platforms: SLED 10, RHEL 5, Redhat5
>> * 750MB disk space minimum on Linux and 540M on Windows
>> * 512MB RAM memory minimum
>> * US English locale
>> So Byfield's statement is a bit misleading. But what astonished me was the
>> registered trademark symbol after Linux used by IBM. Who owns the Linux
>> brand name? Was this an error?!?
>> Attila
>
> I believe that would be Linus Torvalds - the creator.
Yes, it's a registered trademark because the word use to be abused in the 90s
(that's what I've read).
http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html
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