Re: RFC: pentium optimized debian
Maarten Boekhold <maartenb@dutepp0.et.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> I think that a trade-mark forbids you to *sell* an item which you
> call 'pentium'. I don't believe that using it in our context would be
> any problem. And how do all those companies advertizing with 'Intel
> Pentium inside' fit into this?
I've been trying to track down where I got the idea that gcc used
-m586, and I think I've found what I was remembering wrong: the
linux kernel uses 586 for its processer class define. However,
it in places used pentium, also. Most notably, it uses pentium
when talking about specific intel things (like the f00f bug).
However, although it looks like there's been some effort to use
586 (or 686 I think for the pentium pro) as the generic term, there
are a few places where it talks about "pentium class" processors
or similar sorts of usages for "pentium".
Anyways, just wanted to clean up my mistake...
One other idea: if we wanted to check, we could just as intel. The
trademark holder isn't allowed to ignore improper use of a trademark.
If they ignore it for very long it ceases to be a trademark.
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Raul
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