Bobby

Ubuntu is just tweaked Debian

All packages are recompiled for Ubuntu and Ubuntu has everything in its own repositories. They literally distribute the software. If you just change config files a bit and the software packages still come from Ubuntu, it’s not really your own distribution. It’s Ubuntu and repository accesses still count towards Ubuntu stats.

Microsoft doesn’t hold a copyright worldwide for product names.

Product names are trademarks, not copyrights. For someone shouting in another comment about garbage misinformation, you fail at basic stuff.

tech companies

The French government is not a tech company.

he seems to have changed his tune on that. And people did make it known to him.

Changing his tune is a very different thing from changing opinions. It clearly was just a reaction to public pressure, not inner reflection.

I disagree on his stance regarding blu-ray discs. A movie is not software.

Java technology is a critical part of the new high-definition video standard, the Blu-ray Disc standard. This is a great time to be Java developer.

its own Linux distribution

Tweaking Ubuntu a bit counts and own Linux distribution?

Trademarks don’t matter when it’s only for internal use.