Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction

[Otto Haliburton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-devel-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-
> admin at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rik van Riel
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:10 PM
> To: fedora-devel-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction
> 
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Otto Haliburton wrote:
> 
> > > Fedora Linux *is* "Redhat Linux", just with a different name and a
> > > *more* open development model.
> 
> > The question is "What are you smoking".  If that was the case why make
> > the change????????
> 
> One of the reasons would be trademark law.  If free
> distribution of things with the Red Hat name and logo
> were allowed, the trademark would be invalid very
> quickly ... ;)
> 
> --
> "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
> Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
> by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
> 
> 
I think that's what I said in the previous email.  They can't license and
patent a product that is freely distributed and their profit has been is in
support of the open source product and that has created a high degree of
instability for a commercial product.