On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 10:24 -0700, Preston Crawford wrote: >> 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! > > Linux has always been a trademarked name for a while ... which is why > CentOS is not CentOS Linux > I get that. I was just making a basic statement about trademarks. Not Linux specifically. Preston