On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 12:50, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Lurker here. Feel free to smack me for suggesting this. > > I've run into continuous confusion with clients and enthusiasts alike on > the naming change. Whether it is a demonization by anti-Red Hat > enthusiasts, people who claim Red Hat doesn't do anything but RPM (sigh, > they can't seem to separate APT from Debian) or when I've switched > clients from upgade from Red Hat Network (RHN) to Fedora Legacy (FL) for > Red Hat Linux (RHL) updates, they act like it's a whole new product. > > I've had the best success in just flat out stating that Red Hat Linux is > now Fedora Core (FC), and Fedora Legacy (FL) is the mechanism by which > end-of-life RHL/FC releases, period. This includes no longer referring > to Red Hat Linux but calling it Fedora Core. Additionally, I call > "Fedora" the "community distribution" of Red Hat, which helps further > calm fears -- especially when I go into the trademark issues, which > client seem to understand better than the enthusiasts. > Not only is this a Trademark problem to 'rename them' in this way, it is also completely confusing to a huge other set of users out there. If my opinion is worth anything, this gets a no vote from me. -sv -- fedora-legacy-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legacy-list
