On 04/20/2011 11:33 AM, Scott Dowdle wrote:
I'm guessing that that last word there was a typo... or perhaps
it was a Freudian slip? :)
Yeah, that's a typo. :)
Regarding the Microsoft logo, hey Red Hat and Microsoft do have a
low-key press release-ish agreement to support each others OSes within their own
virtualization platforms... so you'd think Microsoft wouldn't mind if their logo
was used by a project that Red Hat sponsors and uses for an upstream... when that logo is
going to be used in one of the key components of said virtualization products... so
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Richard can wrangle through the Red(mond) tape and
get approval somehow.
I wouldn't assume that a mutual press-release means anything besides the
fact that we put out a mutual press-release. :)
Oracle's VirtualBox OSE has OS logos and they are distributing
that both under a free license and without cost so unless they are footing some sort of
licensing fee for those logos, which I strongly doubt, with enough effort this should be
doable.
It is almost never the case that because $FOO is doing $BAR, we can also
do $BAR. I know that logic is counter-intuitive from a geek perspective
(and possibly also from a human one), but in legal matters, you cannot
usually rely on the behaviour of other, unconnected parties.
~tom
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