Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Rebuilding Linux Workstation/Server - and building a NAS? Date: 4 Jan 2026 06:24:51 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <10j9t7e$ta7t$1@dont-email.me> <10jc3vg$1i4ia$10@dont-email.me> <10jcfk8$1m1ks$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 39Hh4j//AkFmOhsuZWut1w9XYJwtOzH+xgP+qpjtTn9X+B+YGP Cancel-Lock: sha1:zsCtBBUFB0X5NnMYOVjv2+pLKRI= sha256:iWEK8n/N7KTPxiP4kSdghjmOKm+v8bFr0d0qwY8+xso= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:80455 On Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:26:32 +0000, Nuno Silva wrote: > On 2026-01-03, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > >> On Sat, 3 Jan 2026 14:09:02 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote: >> >>> Oh, the things I don't know. I had to look up CMR. (It's like "organic >>> farming"- we used to just call it "farming".) >> >> Except “Organic” is a trade mark, don’t you know? So you need to >> license it, and pass a certification to do so. > > Besides that it probably shouldn't have been granted to begin with, how > would such a trademark be enforceable? > > One thing is calling your record company or computer business "Apple", > another thing is using an adjective as trademark, even if it were not > common to use "organic" to describe farming or produce, I'm not so > convinced it'd be easy to enforce. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIntosh_(apple)#Cultural_significance