Personally I think that TigerDirect needs to simply quit whining. But until that happens, the offer from Red Hat founder may be all the relief that Steve Jobs is going to get from this whole mess.

Steve Jobs may have found a guardian angel in Red Hat founder Bob Young, or at least a sympathetic ear.

Just one day before Apple Computer officially released its Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger operating system, the company was hit with a trademark infringement lawsuit by online computer reseller TigerDirect. In the lawsuit, TigerDirect charges that the name of Apple’s newest OS has dramatically lowered TigerDirect’s standings in Internet search results.

“Before…an Internet search for the term ‘tiger’ would result in TigerDirect being the sole provider of computers, computer software and computer related products. TigerDirect would also almost always appear in the first three responses to such a search,” the lawsuit states. Now Apple’s operating system tops searches on MSN and Yahoo, and it inundates results on Google’s search engine as well. TigerDirect has reportedly owned trademarks on the words “Tiger,” “TigerDirect” and “TigerSoftware” for nine years. [Read the rest]