[ox-en] Re: Which Fedora is the real Fedora?
- From: Martin Hardie <auskadi tvcabo.co.mz>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:06:03 +0200
Here is a good one for all those in the "doghouse" defending trade marks -
claiming you own something when you don't makes Red Hat smell a little
doesn't it?
Red Hat tell us they own the name but do they?
http://www.linuxworld.com/story/38021.htm
In September if this year, Red Hat applied to the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office for a trademark - to cover its use of "Fedora" in operating systems
and related goods and services.
As the New York Times pointed out yesterday, "Red Hat's Fedora Project site
already treats the name as a trademark and cites legal guidelines for using
the term."
Here is what the site says:
The Fedora Name
Fedora is now a trademark of Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat will defend this trademark
in order to protect the integrity of The Fedora Project. The rules for using
the Fedora trademark will be generally more permissive than the rules for
using the Red Hat trademarks. The separate name and trademark are necessary
in order to have different rules for using the trademarks. The rules for
using the "Fedora" trademark are available at
http://fedora.redhat.com/about/trademarks/.
Red Hat's official "Red Hat" has been the Red Hat Fedora made by the New York
Hat Company for many years.
The problem is that as long ago as 1997 computer scientists at Cornell
University began working on a project to build a software tool, mainly for
the benefit of librarians, that would blend content from various internal and
external sources and present them in a unified form.
The New York Times quotes Carl Lagoze, a senior researcher in Cornell's
information sciences department, as explaining that the project was named
"FEDORA" because it was an acronym for Flexible Extensible Digital Object
Repository Architecture."
"We're a research project; we never had any active interest in grabbing the
name," Lagoze said. But apparently that may be about to change, says the
Times.
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