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Google Asks Chromixium OS Devs to Cease Use of the Name, Cub Linux Is Born

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Marius Nestor
Jan 22, 2016

It looks like Google’s Trademark Enforcement Team asked the developers of the Chromixium project to cease use of the name “Chromixium” for their GNU/Linux distribution because of infringement, despite the fact that Google doesn’t yet uses that name on any of its projects.

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Marius Nestor

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