[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout, round two

[Michael Scherer]

Le lundi 06 décembre 2010 à 13:10 +0100, Daniel Kreuter a écrit :
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> >
> > Because Ubuntu already has a repo called "universal"? that's a similar
> > reason to why it wasn't called "restricted", because restricted is
> > used by distros that offer a commercial repo as in "pay to use some
> > more stuff".
> >
> > --
> > Ahmad Samir
> >
> 
> Do they have a patent on the name?


Patents apply to technical invention. What could be used is trademark.

And that's not the question, this is a basic usability issue, if a
rather important portion of the users associate a word with something,
this sound sane to no reuse the same word to hold a different meaning in
a very similar context, or it will cause confusion.  

-- 
Michael Scherer