svn commit: r208459 - head/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/hardware

Simon L. Nielsen simon at FreeBSD.org
Mon May 24 15:20:29 UTC 2010


On 2010.05.24 14:23:45 +0200, Marius Strobl wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 01:39:42PM +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > On 2010.05.23 19:46:19 +0000, Marius Strobl wrote:
> > 
> > > New Revision: 208459
> > >
> > > Log:
> > >   Update the sparc64 hardware list regarding machines that will be supported
> > >   beginning with 8.1-RELEASE as well as correct some existing entries and
> > >   add previously missed ones.
> > 
> > >  	<listitem>
> > > -	  <para>&netra; t1 105</para>
> > > +	  <para>&sun; &netra; t1 100/105</para>
> > 
> > If the product is called Netra and you just added the Sun part to
> > identify the company it should just be Sun, and not &sun; as you are
> > refering to Sun the company and not as part of a trademark.
> > 
> > (It's a bit since I looked at it, but I'm rather sure above ist still
> > the case.)
> > 
> > > +      <para>Starting with 8.1-RELEASE, &arch.sparc64; systems based on
> > > +	&fujitsu; &sparc64; V are also supported by &os;, which
> > > +	includes the following known working systems:</para>
> > 
> > Same here, if you are refering to Fujitsu the company it should not
> > include a trademark symbol.
> > 
> 
> It's kind of hard to think of a case where one would use the name
> of a company in a way that doesn't refer to the company but rather
> to a trademark when even using "company product" doesn't mean to
> refer to it as part of a trademark :) I.e. when would one have to
> use the company trademark?

Indeed :).  I tried a quick check to see where I found the specific
examples (which I do remember existing at least at one point) but I
couldn't find them now.

> In any case, do the attached patches look correct to you?

Yes, that looks good - please commit that. (IE, "Approved" with my doc
hat.)

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen


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