Fedora name stolen by another project :(

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Oct 19 03:38:21 UTC 2007


On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:43:43AM +0100, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> See for yourself:
> http://www.fedora.info/
> It /is/ an Open Source project, however they must surely have known
> about the /real/ Fedora project when they summarily took our name.

<http://www.fedora.info/about/history.shtml>

Predates Fedora, even Warren's original Fedora repository. Basically, both
projects were using the name in their own little worlds for several years
before either became a big deal.


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