On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 17:23, James J. Ramsey wrote: > --- Paul Iadonisi <pri.rhl1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 20:04, Stephen Smoogen wrote: > > > > I have a suggestion. How about renaming the Red > > Hat Linux Project to > > the Blue Sombrero Linux Project (or something like > > that). > > Interesting thought. Not sure if "Blue Sombrero" would > be the best name, but having Right, Blue Sombrero was just an example. Anything sufficiently different from Red Hat would probably be fine. > 1) a trademark sufficiently different from the name > "Red Hat Linux" that unsupported users won't bug RH > tech support, and Well, it would likely have to be something that is *not* trademarked if it's use is to not be limited. US Trademark law requires diligent enforcement in order to keep the trademark. Sure it could start off as a trademark, but once it was in common, unfettered use, any attempt to enforce it as a trademark would likely fail. [snip] > "Fedora Linux" has a nice ring. How about Fedora Freshrpms OS. ;-) (Provided Matthias and Warren don't have a problem with this, of course.) [It is Warren Togami who is the Fedora maintainer, correct? (Or maybe *a* maintainer.) I know Matthais Saou is the Freshrpms lead.] Actually, Fedora Linux does sound better. -- -Paul Iadonisi Senior System Administrator Red Hat Certified Engineer / Local Linux Lobbyist Ever see a penguin fly? -- Try Linux. GPL all the way: Sell services, don't lease secrets
