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FOSSmarks (hosted by FSF, and writers include people affiliated with FSF)[0]:

>Trademarks and FOSS are not incompatible; instead, trademarks are legal tools strongly aligned with FOSS principles. A trademark is an assurance that the recipient of the goods or services is receiving a product of known source and qualities. Controlling how a FOSS project trademark is used protects the community and its software, by preventing use of the trademark in ways that are harmful to the reputation of the community or the software.

Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds[1]. GNU is a registered trademark of the FSF[2]. Your definition of "proprietary" isn't shared by virtually anyone, and would make virtually everything "faux open source", including the "open source os" project you originally worried about Go being integrated into.

[0] https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/licensing/2020/FOSSmarksv2.pdf

[1] https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=74560867&caseSearchType=U...

[2] https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=85380218&caseSearchType=U...




Meredith Whittaker and Elon Musk share similar opinions as me on the subject. I assume you’re a captain of industry?




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