But isn't this exactly the same thing Canonical did with Ubuntu? Heck, Mozilla did it for Firefox. All the trademark does is stop people calling the modified version “Elementary OS” – not stop them modifying it.

I was giving the author benefit-of-the-doubt earlier, but this follow-up just seems… petty, if not malicious.

> Their respective communities seem convinced that you can pirate GPL software, which I find fascinating.

But nowhere do they say it's illegal to do so. They consider the distribution to be akin to illegal piracy, because they consider it the Done Thing to pay for the Pro distros.