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 12:37 -0500, 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
            ^^^^^^ - Remove the always :)

> which is why CentOS is not CentOS Linux


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