To: "Murali Parth" <muralinux@xxxxxxxxx>; "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: Re : Fedora Dispute
On 5/7/05, Murali Parth <muralinux@xxxxxxxxx> 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
