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

[mailing-lists at hughesjr.com (Johnny Hughes)]

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
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