Lurker Suggestion: Retro-name RHL to Fedora Core 0.x

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 12:50, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Lurker here.  Feel free to smack me for suggesting this.
> 
> I've run into continuous confusion with clients and enthusiasts alike on
> the naming change.  Whether it is a demonization by anti-Red Hat
> enthusiasts, people who claim Red Hat doesn't do anything but RPM (sigh,
> they can't seem to separate APT from Debian) or when I've switched
> clients from upgade from Red Hat Network (RHN) to Fedora Legacy (FL) for
> Red Hat Linux (RHL) updates, they act like it's a whole new product.
> 
> I've had the best success in just flat out stating that Red Hat Linux is
> now Fedora Core (FC), and Fedora Legacy (FL) is the mechanism by which
> end-of-life RHL/FC releases, period.  This includes no longer referring
> to Red Hat Linux but calling it Fedora Core.  Additionally, I call
> "Fedora" the "community distribution" of Red Hat, which helps further
> calm fears -- especially when I go into the trademark issues, which
> client seem to understand better than the enthusiasts.
> 

Not only is this a Trademark problem to 'rename them' in this way, it is
also completely confusing to a huge other set of users out there.

If my opinion is worth anything, this gets a no vote from me.

-sv