Fedora Dispute

[Marc M]

> 
> d Red Hat gain by jacking with the Cornell/UVA project? There is no
> competition, they are in different areas of technology.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> >> Red Hat is now trying to do the right thing - enforce what they have 
> the authority to go after. The fact that they are in differrent areas of 
> technology makes no differrence legally. There isn't a legal distinction of, 
> 'oh wait...this is a browser and this is an OS so everything's allright'. We 
> tech people think that way. But the judges and looyahs don't see it that 
> way. 
> 

See http://www.nissan.com/ From what I understand, the car company sued 
someone who had already bought the URL and had a company with Nissan in the 
name. So basically what this says, is, if a big company wants your domain, 
it's theirs (got a million dollars to fight it?)... 

I would assert that RH is probably just concerned about other corporate 
dirty tricks. IOW, if they DIDNT go after this 'situation' (potential 
infringement or whatever), then the waters of proprietary-vs-OSS, would 
continue to get muddier and muddier, very intentionally on the part of 
various companies/partners/cohorts. I could see such events unfold and it 
isn't pretty. Let's hope that the law gets upheld; that would be a great 
place to start. 

Marc
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