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** Actually, [https://web.archive.org/web/20101029125658/http://www.linuxmark.org/attribution.php you're required to write Linux®] anyway, as the name was trademarked to prevent trolls from registering the name and shaking other publishers down for "royalties" to use it. This fact is great for countertrolling Slashtards who can't help but reflexively type out "(TM) Micro$oft(TM) Whinedoze(TM)(TM)".
** Thanks to a lot of software cross-compatibility, operating systems like Linux, BSD forks, and Mac's Mach/BSD kernel have become known as "*NIX" platforms.
* Another [[Roger Ebert]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20090625063138/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
* Numerous A-list porn stars have their names (or, more accurately, their stage names) trademarked. This is disconcerting enough, but particularly weird in the case of alt-porn star Stoya, whose stage name is no more than a clipped form of her real last name.
* Tell him that's silly to [[Harlan Ellison]], who actually ''did'' register his name as a trademark.
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