The other thing you've been involved with lately is the Linux trademark and protection of that. Actually it came on my radar before that. When I first became executive director of LI, I asked the current members at that time if they had ever trademarked the term Linux. At first Linus didn't want to own the trademark. That's just very painful, plus you really have no control over how it's used.
Someone can have a Linux porno site and there's nothing anybody can really say about it.
So, we started licensing it out to people and protecting it. Back in those days there was maybe one request a month. Then as things started to pick up with Linux, it got to be more and more evident that there were going to be more and more problems. People wanted to use the term Linux to reserve this huge name space that they were going to cut up later on and sell little blocks to or whatever. Find some much smaller name space.