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“Remove occurrences of the short name of the Debian derivative from Canonical”

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Re: “Remove occurrences of the short name of the Debian derivative from Canonical”

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Post by abus »

Zikes wrote: post #67
abus wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't 'Canonical' a trademark? Couldn't you just refer to it as DerivativeOS4 and then have a central reference table?

That reference table would have to contain Canonical or Ubuntu, though.

It keeps the source cleaner though and it wouldn't have to.

DerivativeOS4 - Debian-based operating system released in 2004 by UK Company No. 06870835.

Re: “Remove occurrences of the short name of the Debian derivative from Canonical”

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Post by fluidcruft »

Zikes wrote: post #67
abus wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't 'Canonical' a trademark? Couldn't you just refer to it as DerivativeOS4 and then have a central reference table?

That reference table would have to contain Canonical or Ubuntu, though.

Maybe just a tinyurl link to their website.
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