Dell + Linux

[Luis Villa]

On 2/21/07, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 February 2007 09:47, Luis Villa wrote:
> > Best way to make companies happy is to drive business to them. Perhaps
> > fedora.org should be offering a 'pre-installed' link on par with the
> > 'download' link? See for reference what http://debian.org/ does
> > ('pre-installed' link in left-hand column) or
> > http://www.us.debian.org/distrib/ (scroll down). I'd of course suggest
> > making it prettier and more useful than the debian page, but you get
> > the general drift- Fedora should drive traffic to vendors who
> > distribute Fedora.
>
> Unless we create the second logo set, I don't think we'll get very far with
> pre-installation.  Most vendors will want to sweeten the user experience, and
> possibly add branding.  Any of that will make it no longer Fedora, and the
> vendor would be unable to make such claims under the trademark policy.
> They'd have to remove all the Fedora/RH trademarked logos and such too.

To me that indicates a problem with the trademark policy, but that is
a windmill I will tilt at another day ;)

Luis