Fedora Dispute

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 09:54:27PM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Hoffman" <dhoffman2004 at gmail.com>
> To: "Murali Parth" <muralinux at gmail.com>; "For users of Fedora Core 
> releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 9:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Re : Fedora Dispute
> 
> 
> >On 5/7/05, Murali Parth <muralinux at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>Hello List,
> >>Are we in danger of losing the name "Fedora" due the reported claim by
> >>Cornell and Virginia universities ? Could any one clarify on this so
> >>that we get to know the facts ?
> >>Murali
> >
> >If they have to rename it, that doesn't mean any of the functionality
> >will go away. So who cares what it's called?
> 
> This is really a tempest in a teapot.  The Cornell/UVA use and Red Hat's 
> use of the name do not conflict.  One is for a digital management system 
> and one is for a Linux distribution.  I suspect anyone who can spell the 
> word "computer" will know that they are not the same thing.
> 
> Cornell/UVA are making this into more than it is - Red Hat's own lawyers 
> have said that they can't see any way that there could be a conflict.  See 
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/20/HNredhatfedora_1.html for more 
> info.
> 
> Thomas 
I strongly disagree. It is RedHat that is making the problem by
wanting to trademark the name Fedora. There was not objection from the
Cornell/UVA group until RedHat took that action.
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