OT: Media format patents and commercial installations

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Fri May 26 16:56:03 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 11:37 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> 
> In any company with >1 employee, the liklihood of one person not
> knowing what another person is doing is high.  Intentionally tying
> actions of one person to the work of a (quite likely) functionally
> unrelated person is frowned upon.  Legally requiring that the sales
> web site, paper (translated) docs, etc. change whenever a software
> developer fixes a bug is a sure way to ensure Fedora isn't as widely
> used as we would like. 

So where do you draw the line on when 'changes' are changes enough to
require a name change?  Blurring the trademark line is a sure way to
lose the trademark, and we do NOT want that to happen.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Release Engineer: Fedora
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