View this article at: http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/05/03/tiger.license.offered/ Tuesday, May 03, 2005 11:00pm Red Hat founder offers to l... 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.'"