yum appmarket

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Aug 23 06:12:32 UTC 2010


Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> Some more tags for "functionally comparable to" and the name of
> some well known programs for Windows or Macintosh would let
> people cope with the original names of Linux apps.
> 
> Nero -> k3b, xcdroast
> Adobe Illustrator -> inkscape
> Adobe Reader -> evince, kpdf, okular

I think that would not fly for trademark reasons. I know there are sites 
which do that kind of mapping and that some upstream projects advertise 
their program as "comparable with (popular proprietary program XYZ)", but 
they're treading on a very fine line legally.

        Kevin Kofler



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