The first Fedora (tm) project.

[Robin Laing]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 09:59, Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>>The Fedora(tm) Project.
>><http://www.fedora.info/>
>>
>>It looks like there is a Fedora Project that dates back to before Red 
>>Hat thought of using Fedora.
>>
>>I don't have the link that lead me to this handy but from what I 
>>remember, it looks like Red Hat may have to change the name of this 
>>project.
> 
> 
> Hi,
>  I talked with Michael Johnson who is cited as the leader of the fedora
> project on the fedora.redhat.com pages.
> 
> He talked with the legal counsel at red hat and got the following info.
> 
> - the fedora.info people haven't tried to take a number of steps to work
> it out - they've taken none
> - fedora.info was only using f.e.d.o.r.a as an acronym -not as a
> trademark
> - only  after the rh trademark filing did fedora.info assert a trademark
> - rh had previously informed uva and cornell that rh would not interfere
> with their continued use of the fedora trademark.
> - the fedora has been associated with red hat ever since the shadowman
> logo was adopted.
> 
> so there is some more exact info.
> 
> it seems to me rh has acted both legally and ethically correct -
> especially that they told uva and cornell that they would not interfere
> with the use of the term for the fedora.info project.
> 
> -sv
> 
> 
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I just read this.
<http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-5110750.html>

Some parts of the article.

A team of university researchers says it will oppose Red Hat's attempt 
to trademark "Fedora," the company's moniker for its new hobbyist 
Linux line, based on their prior use of the name.

"We make no request that they stop using the name...although it is a 
pain in the neck for us that they use it," he said. "Our support 
people get requests for their Fedora all the time."

The Patent Office lists several other trademark actions relating to 
"fedora," including a proposed trademark for chemical analysis software.


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Robin Laing