[CentOS] Re: Linux Trademarked? -- now you know why they call it "Fedora Core"

[Preston Crawford]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> BTW, _now_ you'all know why Red Hat calls it "Fedora Core"
> and _not_ "Fedora Linux" or anything with "Linux."  Red Hat
> was smart, they knew this was coming, and they have planned
> for it.  It is the eventuality of the trademark game.
> Because no matter how good your intentions are, legal
> non-sense always kills it, so it's best to setup your
> community projects with this foresight beforehand.

Kind of depressing, though. Eventually we'll have to name our software 
projects names like "Project 2" in order to not infringe... oh wait.. 
there's Microsoft Project, dang!

Preston