IBM and HP both hopped onto the social movement called linux.
…the world changes: linux enters the product portfolio…
…the vast majority of enterprise datacenter deployments are now occurring on Red Hat’s linux.
…SuSe has added in an application server to their linux distribution…
…IBM [needs] to defend its increasingly curious linux strategy.
…the GNU linux kernel…
etc. Why won’t jonathan schwartz capitalize Linux? Is he worried about the trademark? He doesn’t seem to have a problem capitalizing Red Hat, IBM, GNU, SuSe, Microsoft, Sun (obviously) and even the name of the Linux World conference and SuSe’s Enterprise Linux, but for some reason he’s morbidly averse to using the appropriate form of the name of the kernel that’s one of the biggest competitors to Solaris (another correctly-capitalized name).
From his writings on his weblog, I don’t think schwartz is a particularly petty individual, but I can’t determine any motivation for his continual apparently deliberate misuse of the name.
I’m waiting for an explanation, jonathan. (Not that I have any expectation that I’ll get one… I’m just [counting on fingers] one person–who happens to be a Java proponent, by the way–with a question.)
