Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 10 Nov 2000 12:22:04 +0200 | From | Constantine Gavrilov <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.2.18pre21 |
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Matti Aarnio wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:57:45AM +0200, Constantine Gavrilov wrote: > > > Cisco Trademark is EtherChannel -- there the capitalization > > > is important. We could call it ETHERNETCHANNEL (and even > > > "Etherchannel" or "ETHERCHANNEL") get away with it clean. > > > ... > > > > Regards, > > > > Willy > > > > > > /Matti Aarnio > > > > ISDN uses "channel bonding", not bonding. As for "Etherchannel", let us > > change it to "EtherChannel" is this is how it is called. > > Anything but "EtherChannel" -- trademark people are sometimes > unpleasant when they consider something being infringed. > (And nowhere as much as in USA..) > > We dont' have cisco approval of using their trademark in Linux > kernel feature name, or do we ? >
Gee, we do not call it EtherChannel, we say CISCO calls it EtherChannel. Where is the infringment here? Are people that paranoid or it is just me who is not getting it?
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