heeey isnt this a rip off????

jim branagan fedora at themusenashville.com
Fri Apr 29 05:32:19 UTC 2005


Craig White wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 19:08 -0400, William Hooper wrote:
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>>David Curry wrote:
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>>>Matthew Miller wrote:
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>>>>On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 01:30:37PM -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
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>>>>>>http://www.fedora.info/about/
>>>>>>these people are calling THERE Project the fedora project isnt this
>>>>>>a no no?
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>>>>>They claim that Redhat has infringed on THEIR use of Fedora.
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>>>>And their claim has a lot of merit, in my non-lawyer opinion.
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>>>For an independent source establishing use of "fedora" by Cornell and
>>>Uof Va see http://freshmeat.net/projects/fedora/ which is dated Monday,
>>>May 19, 2003.
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>>There is the little fact that the name Fedora for this project comes out
>>of Warren Togami's Fedora project, which was started in Dec. 2002.
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>>http://www.fedora.us/pipermail/fedora-devel/2003-March/000454.html
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>>All of this is old news.
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>probably - and it's not my axe to grind but
><file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html>
>(home page for firefox browser installed by FC-3) - second section
>starts with 'The Fedora Project'
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>;-)
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>Craig
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Isn't it a couple of centuries too late for anyone to trademark 
"Fedora"?  (Or "Stetson" or "Trilby"?).





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