Delay? Looks bad for Fedora

[Jean-Francois Bélanger]

Fedora is also a trademark of RedHat

See for details:
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/guidelines/

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gordon Messmer" <yinyang at eburg.com>
To: <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: Delay? Looks bad for Fedora


> Mark Hutchinson wrote:
> >
> > The move to fedora was a mistake for RedHat.  I understand why they did
it,
> > but they went too far and discarded loyal users ( some paying some not.
>
> There seem to be a lot of people voicing the opinion that this is a move
> to abandon the Free Software community.  If they bothered to look into
> the goals of Fedora Linux, they'd see that Red Hat is addressing the
> things we've been asking them for over the last several years.
>
> They've created a brand that can be distributed freely.  You couldn't do
> that with Red Hat Linux.  The name was trademarked, and that trademark
> had to be defended.  As a result, cheapbytes.com and others couldn't
> sell discs branded Red Hat Linux.  They'll be able to sell Fedora Core
> discs.
>
> Red Hat has also opened up (or is in the process of doing so)
> development to their community.  Now the people who use the product will
> also get their chance to contribute to the development process.  This is
> something that the Debian community has bragged about for years.  Now
> that it's a feature of Fedora Core, those same people are talking about
> it as if it were a drawback.
>
> Red Hat hasn't abandoned Linux.  They're giving it wings.  Their
> programmers who previously worked on Red Hat Linux and desktop
> applications for the distribution will continue working on those
> applications (if I understand correctly).  The code will be included in
> Fedora Core before it sees RH Enterprise.  Fedora Core is not an
> official Red Hat product, but it is funded by Red Hat, and that's
> something that Debian lacks.
>
>
>
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