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Red Hat Branding Police Outlaws RHEL
Mar 7, 2008, 19 :00 UTC (10 Talkback[s]) (5949 reads)

(Other stories by Matthew Aslett)

"I just noticed an article from last month's Red Hat Magazine that states: 'It is never correct to abbreviate 'Red Hat Enterprise Linux' as 'RHEL'.' As one of the commenters states, it is about fours years too late for that, and Red Hat's branding police will have their work cut out editing the 47,400 uses of the term RHEL on Red Hat's own web site, not to mention educating the company's own executives.

"One of the implications of this new ruling is revealed by the snappy title of the article in question..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
I can only speculate, but this seems lik ...   Is RHEL not trademarked?   
Rob
Mar 7, 2008, 20:43:02
 
... who tried to get people from using " ...   Must be the same folks...   
The Man Who Japed
Mar 7, 2008, 21:00:34
 
I love RHEL.  I use RHEL at work and RHE ...   RHEL   
Peter Griffin
Mar 7, 2008, 21:31:48
 
I wish they would pick a standard abbrev ...   Googleable   
Colin Simpson
Mar 8, 2008, 18:40:55
 
> I love RHEL.  I use RHEL at work and R ...   Re: RHEL   
drew Roberts
Mar 8, 2008, 22:18:21
 
copyright RHEL and use it for a Linux di ...   quick! someone   
LD
Mar 8, 2008, 22:18:55
 
Dear God....next we will find out that R ...   RHEL   
Brian L. Simonin
Mar 9, 2008, 03:06:46
 
I'm quite sure that abbreviations we ...   R HELL   
Gene Venable
Mar 9, 2008, 05:36:01
 
> I can only speculate, but this seems l ...   Re: Is RHEL not trademarked?   
blackhole
Mar 9, 2008, 11:19:25
 
You've got to wonder if all the peop ...   rip-off artists at work?   
Byran Lee
Mar 9, 2008, 14:19:08
 
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