I've worked in hosting, infrastructure, and development for nearly fifteen years. People who care about running Red Hat compatible solutions (frequently for dev or QA environments where RHEL is running in production) deploy CentOS. People who care about RH** certifications deploy CentOS. People who care about deploying mass shared hosting or control panel based solutions crud deploy CentOS. The rest of the world tends to deploy other distributions such as Debian and Ubuntu, or the various BSD flavors.

Given the various train wrecks (political infighting, months without security updates owing the such issues at one point, etc) involving the CentOS project, and given my general love of Debian over the years in terms of stability and security, whenever I have found myself in need of a distribution that pursues RHEL compatibility I simply deploy Scientific Linux. It's a distro maintained by the kind folks at CERN and Fermilab, and gets the job done just fine.

In consideration of recent coverage of the matter, and referencing my previous /. comment on an attempt to promote open source operating systems to kids via kites, I think I'll just go ahead and start producing small scale production of kites with the Ubuntu logo on them. After all, my goal is to support introducing people to Ubuntu, and I honestly don't care what the entity known as Canonical thinks about this anymore. If they care enough, they can sue me if they want, and they can explain it to my kids later. Doing this today, I'll be sure to include a kite with a Debian sail with each Ubuntu kite, just to be sure kids know what Ubuntu is derived from and give credit where it's due.

I won't bother quoting more of your reply, since it's all repetitious regurgitation of the quoted text. You've entirely missed the point that asking for permission to utilize a trademark, in other words asking for a license to use the trademark, is how you establish a relationship. In this case, it would have been for promoting open source operating systems via a means that would have been fairly interesting to kids without trying to deliver the initial message through a computer screen. Damage the mark? Are you serious? You're demonstrating you know absolutely nothing about how trademark dilution of licensing concerns work.

Sadly, there is a huge difference between many of the aims of the Ubuntu community and those of Canonical, and there's a sincere lack of imagination on the part of the latter, at least in terms of the folks they have "answering the phones" in their legal and PR departments. I imagine you'd fit in well, though.

There's trolling, and then there's trolling on drugs that only got invented last week. Damn dude, whatever that new stuff is, it's no good for you.

With a BS in neuroscience and an IQ of 151, I made the foolish assumption that you would have been informed enough to know that nicotine isn't what kills tobacco users; it's the countless carcinogens and ancillary destructive compounds in said products that produces fatalities. Nicotine alone, in the dosages consumed by routine users of products containing the chemical, is no more harmful from a physiological perspective than caffeine. Perhaps you should educate yourself further before posting again.

I have a lovely hat for you. It's fashioned from pure curium, and you'll undoubtedly be the first on the block to wear one.

I just spent ten minutes going through the mess of preferences and options for my account, and have also failed to find any HTTPS toggle.

There is a massive difference in promoting something that is nothing more than a simple corporate brand, and promoting something that represents the ideals found in an open source operating system. Ubuntu is supposed to be about its community, but Canonical has increasingly hijacked that goodwill over the years. If you can't see the difference between these two things, I'm sorry dude, I can't help you.

On the laughable topic of profit, see my other comment on the subject. Cheers.

You should probably read my other comment on that point. We're talking about a laughably low level of profit, if you could call it that at the low production levels involved. Meanwhile, apparently it's totally okay for others to sell $20 t-shirts with the Ubuntu logo slapped across them. I wonder if they even bothered asking for permission.

You find the NHTSA tests boring? You must be willing to strap yourself in for a crash test like this, then.

You can probably find various overall safety record stats via Google, but in the meantime you might be interested in the NHTSA safety rating for the Model S. If you don't believe the five-star rating merely because the link I've provided happens to be a (rather detailed) Tesla press release, you're welcome to contact the NHTSA and verify the claim yourself.

Yes. I sincerely doubt I ever got an opportunity to speak with anyone who went to law school; the quality of the responses I got read more like some intern was copying and pasting boilerplate PR material instead.

Apparently you have a gross misunderstanding of the legal concepts of trademark dilution, promotional use, and licensing. Logos slapped on cars in various racing circuits must really dilute the brands involved, huh? It's probably also worth mentioning that I offered to contribute 30% of all proceeds back to financially support open source projects of Canonical's choosing as well, which isn't exactly insignificant after small volume production costs are accounted for in something meant as an exercise in open source awareness promotion. Judging by the boilerplate PR nature of the replies I got, I never even spoke with anyone who went to law school. Apparently you're the idiot here.

Reference the other comment.

You go right ahead and make your own distribution, including a nice toolchain and community to support it. I'll be over there promoting successful distros and projects that I use on a daily basis.

I strongly suspect you have no idea at all what "make your own distro" means.

The little pamphlet talking about Ubuntu and other distros would probably have sparked the question if natural curiosity didn't. Just guessing here.