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[ox-en] Re: Which Fedora is the real Fedora?



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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"Mind you, I am not asking you to bear witness to what you believe false, 
which would be a sin, but to testify falsely to what you believe true - which 
is a virtuous act because it compensates for lack of proof of something 
that certainly exists or happened." Bishop Otto to Baudolino in Umberto Eco's 
Baudolino.

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