Hannah Montana Linux

This is a clear violation of Disney's copyright on the Hannah Montana character. I hope they successfully sue this out of existence.

> This is a clear violation of Disney's copyright on the Hannah Montana character.

All they have to do is claim they're images of Miley Cyrus and they're in the clear. Now, Miley would have a complaint then, since they're (probably) using her image without permission, but I don't know if she'd push the matter or not.

Since they are using the Hannah Montana name it's clearly up to Disney to fight it.

Wow, that's so short sighted it actually surprises me.

Why would they fight it? It's just another form of free merchandise Disney didn't need to pay anything for. If they'd have to come up with their own Linux distro, it would cost them.

Actually, Disney is one of the greatest fans of Linux. Lots of their movies are made using Linux, and if Linux was not available those movies would have cost them millions more. Apart from not being able to control their own systems.

Why wouldn't Disney cooperate to market HM Linux (don't use the ampersand in between the two chars!) ? HM would be the first moviestar to have an own distro, gaining even more attention. Even from people like me who never bothered to watch HM.

> Why would they fight it?

Disney has a couple of copyrighted items for which the early copyright is... uhm... questionable. Perhaps to compensate for this, they are extremely (some might say overly) vigilant in policing their copyrights. Of course, since Disney was largely the company behind the recent expansion of the copyright laws in the US, I have little respect for their copyrights myself.

Your correct that they would need to change the names used, Caitlyn, but if they do that, all they have to do is deal with Miley, not Disney.

"If they'd have to come up with their own Linux distro, it would cost them." No, no it wouldn't. The main thing that's changed is the desktop background, plus maybe a grub image or gdm theme. That's half an hour's work for an intern, tops.

As to Miley Cyrus, I don't think she would care either that all of 2 people have downloaded this.

Does nobody get that this is a joke? In fact, is it even a version of linux, or just a single image like ubuntu satanic edition?

Yeah I got that it was a joke. That's why I submitted it. Oh well.

Did you hear the one about the Linux geek?

That's not funny!

I got that it was a joke but... they do have a download link that seems to work.

Linux is what you make it, so let's make it right ... everybody now ...

(only people with sub-10-year-old girls at home will get this, and that is how it should be)

>why would they fight it?

You guys are talking copyrights, but I'll bet some of this stuff is trademarked, too.

If it is trademarked, Disney has little choice but to fight because trademark is a "Use it or lose it" proposition. If they don't defend, the trademarks become worthless.

@dino: Excellent point.

So if I understand this correctly Disney has to fight this even while this is a joke? Hmm, well, that sounds like a fun joke to me!

Quoting:"If they'd have to come up with their own Linux distro, it would cost them." No, no it wouldn't.

Actually I was a bit lost in the recent discussion, but AFAIK everyone doing a Linux-distribution has to make sure source code is available, at the same source where the Linux distribution can be downloaded. Or something along these lines, so that's why I thought having an own Linux-distro would be expensive. Creating a theme though, no, that doesn't sound expensive.

Not that I care one way or the other in this case, but in addition to trademark is "trade dress."

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20081012134419...

Desktop themes probably fall under this as well.

> Did you hear the one about the Linux geek? > That's not funny!

First time I heard that was "Caitlyn Decided This Two Decades Old Joke Was Directed At Her So I Have Deleted It."

> trademark

Very, very good point.

Would it suffice, do you think, if Disney gave them permission? Any down-side?

Offensive TOS violation in spades.

Quoting:Stalinux!

You could find some more up-to-date monsters to use:

Osamanix Bashirix

...and so on.

Quoting:I'm talking about the installed system, not the people building it.

Which is good, because I'd hate to rely on dead people like Stalin to build a system.

I actually was referring to the "fairytale" thread and some in our user community rather than developers.

gus3, > Stalinux! > House Linux?

Then I'm guessing a Milosevix and a Karadzix too? There could be a Matejicix distro from the same corner of Europe, but I think he prefers that this to be known as Slax Linux. -fb

Λινυξ - that's what I'd like.

Or when you work in IT and someone asks you about your job, you point them to Michael Jackson Linux and say: This is IT.

@hans:

I think you mean Λινουξ.

Edit: WTH? It previewed fine, but then it dropped in a bunch of question marks when I posted?

Anyway, Hans, you need an omicron before the ypsilon, to make it sound like the vowel in "blue".

@gus: Looks like you found a forum bug! Can you tell me what you did exactly? Then I can make a bug report for Bob.

I copy/pasted Hans's Greek text, then edited it. I was not using HTML entities.

I see I can use HTML entities for the initial entry, but Preview converts them to straight Unicode.

Test: Λινυξ

There appears to be a discrepancy between preview and submit. I can preview over and over again without error. My best guess is a character encoding problem in the database. It's probably trying to convert to the wrong charset when returning results.

Λινυξ ρυΛσ

@penguinist:

You're so 1337!

θανκσ

Test: Λινυξ ρυΛσ

Bob fixed it :-) The above test was copy/pasted from penguinist's post. Any character not in Latin-1 is now converted to HTML entities before the post is saved.

Did someone try to fix my original reply, or did it magically re-appear after the charset fix?

What I originally said to Hans was, I think you want Λινουξ. Otherwise, you're calling it "lee-neeks".

Quoting:@gus: Looks like you found a forum bug!

In fact, I found this out many months ago (maybe years?), when trying to post greater than / less than signs, but I didn't think it could be fixed.

But I'm sorry I derailed yet another topic. Especially when discussing Hannah Montana, I think it would be far more interesting to stay on topic that all this nerd talk about HTML escape sequences and fixing bugs in forums.

Problem is, I never took the time to watch any Hannah Montana. All I know about Montana is that there's probably snow over there. And all I know about Hannah (the one I know) is that she lives in The Hague. So I don't understand this topic anyway. But that normally doesn't make people refrain from commenting on Linux forums, so why would I?

Speakin' 'bout IP: Someone alleges the idea of HM was stolen by Disney.

http://uk.eonline.com/uberblog/b56013_roundhouse_blow_hannah...

Can't find the outcome of that case.

It wouldn't be the first time.

Viz. Steamboat Willie and The Lion King.

Or Witch Mountain vs. Zenna Henderson's Pilgrimage and The People: No Different Flesh.

> The Lion King.

Yeah, the Lion King is a direct rip off of Kimba the White Lion. Right down to copying the name.