Fedora Dispute

[Antonio Olivares]

--- Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com>
wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Hoffman" <dhoffman2004 at gmail.com>
> To: "Murali Parth" <muralinux at gmail.com>; "For users
> of Fedora Core 
> releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 9:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Re : Fedora Dispute
> 
> 
> > On 5/7/05, Murali Parth <muralinux at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> Hello List,
> >> Are we in danger of losing the name "Fedora" due
> the reported claim by
> >> Cornell and Virginia universities ? Could any one
> clarify on this so
> >> that we get to know the facts ?
> >> Murali
> >
> > If they have to rename it, that doesn't mean any
> of the functionality
> > will go away. So who cares what it's called?
> 
> This is really a tempest in a teapot.  The
> Cornell/UVA use and Red Hat's use 
> of the name do not conflict.  One is for a digital
> management system and one 
> is for a Linux distribution.  I suspect anyone who
> can spell the word 
> "computer" will know that they are not the same
> thing.
> 
> Cornell/UVA are making this into more than it is -
> Red Hat's own lawyers 
> have said that they can't see any way that there
> could be a conflict.  See 
>
http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/20/HNredhatfedora_1.html
> for more 
> info.
> 
> Thomas 

Thank you very much Thomas for your kind information,
I replied too soon without reading your link.


Regards,

Antonio
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