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05/03/2005, 11:00pm, EDT

Tuesday, May 3rd

Red Hat founder offers to license 'Tiger' to Apple

Robert F. Young, a founder of Linux distributor Red Hat and now owner of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Canadian football team, has offered Apple a quick way out of its lawsuit over the use of the Tiger moniker, according to The Globe and Mail. Apple was sued by retailer Tiger Direct over the use of the Tiger moniker for the latest version of its Mac OS X operating system. "Young has offered to license the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' historical use of the word Tiger to Apple free of charge. The Hamilton Tigers Football Club, established in 1869, continued to be known as the Tigers (with its colors of yellow and black) until 1950, when the Tigers merged with the Hamilton Wildcats to become the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. '136 years ago we were called The Tigers,' Mr. Young said. 'If anyone owns the exclusive rights to the word 'tiger' with that much history and tradition, it's gotta be us.'"


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jasonsRX7
wow
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05/03, 11:24pm, EDT
How cool is that
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Kyros
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05/03, 11:31pm, EDT
Glad to see someone support Apple like that. Not very often that people will do things like that in today's world of business. Hats off to you! (pun possibly intended
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iomatic
that just warrants a:
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05/03, 11:38pm, EDT


hehe
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kndonlee
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05/04, 12:26am, EDT
Everyone that has any rights to tiger has had more than a year to say anything... and now they come out of the bag? pbbbbbtt. yea right... seems like marketing that rides on the coattails of apple...
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Bogartte
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05/04, 12:43am, EDT
It's pure BS! TigerDirect coming out with it's lawsuit the day, or the day after Tiger's release??!! How grubby is that?

Besides, it isn't infringement at all, their name is TigerDirect, not Tiger... what about Tiger Balm, that lip balm stuff... I think they were around alot longer than either of them.

Seems to me, any judge with a few cents of intellect, would simply throw this out of court, for the obvious reasons.
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kw99
The coolest part...
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05/04, 12:47am, EDT
of that story was finding of that the founder of Red Hat Linux owns a Canadian pro football team.

Let there be free iMacs and Power Macs for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats organization and free-iPod day for the fans...
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finknottle
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05/04, 2:05am, EDT
Tiger balm on your lips....ouch!!!! Man you better check with tiger balm is for!! ;P
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Ozzpot
So stupid.
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05/04, 7:08am, EDT
"Tiger" is a word in the English language. Nobody can copyright a word. It is arrogant to think that just because they chose to call themselves "The Tigers" mean they own the freaking word. How about the word "The"? Are they gonna sue everyone that uses that?

Idiots.
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05/04, 8:20am, EDT
My hat also tips to this guy. In a world where every business action of kindness seems like just a PR boosting event. This guy just did something cool, why... probably cause he could. Regardless of the validity of any claim to ownership or rights to Tiger, be it a great Football team that has been around far longer than a relatively new retailer... he has nothing to gain but that feeling of goodness. On slashdot he would get a +5 Karma happy fuzzy feeling booster, hehe.

Now I feel all warm inside... and need to go hug a big fuzzy teddy bear. AW garsh, that was so cuuuuute.

LOL
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guytoronto
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05/04, 9:02am, EDT
["Tiger" is a word in the English language. Nobody can copyright a word. It is arrogant to think that just because they chose to call themselves "The Tigers" mean they own the freaking word. How about the word "The"? Are they gonna sue everyone that uses that? Idiots. Comment posted by: Ozzpot]

You are right. The following are a list of English words that nobody has the right to claim as their own.

Apple. Windows. Real. Rendezvous. Airport. Unreal. Doom.

How stupid of anyone to think they could own those words.
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