It seems RedHat didn't do their research very well when choosing a name for their new project. Is this going to cause any serious problems?

http://www.fedora.info/fedora.shtml

Building their brand could be quite difficult when it happens to be someone elses...

Except they are rich enough to be able to steal with impunity (probably). Well, it's RedHat, what do you expect? The M$ of the linux world.

"Money doesn't talk, it swears"

Syd

On 2003-11-30 16:00:53 +0000 Ben Francis ben@franci5.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

Building their brand could be quite difficult when it happens to be someone elses...

The word "fedora" and the image of a certain type of hat shouldn't belong to anyone now. Surely it is old enough to be in the public domain? When protection of service marks becomes dictionary privatisation, there will always be problems like this. Hardly surprising.

That said, it doesn't look like the universities registered it as trademark of their research spin-off, so it probably just means the RH one is indefensible and the above will come to pass. I wonder how this will play out.