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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