-----Original Message-----
From: fedora-devel-list-admin(a)redhat.com [mailto:fedora-devel-list-
admin(a)redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rik van Riel
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 2:10 PM
To: fedora-devel-list(a)redhat.com
Subject: RE: Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction
On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Otto Haliburton wrote:
> > Fedora Linux *is* "Redhat Linux", just with a different name and a
> > *more* open development model.
> The question is "What are you smoking". If that was the case why make
> the change????????
One of the reasons would be trademark law. If free
distribution of things with the Red Hat name and logo
were allowed, the trademark would be invalid very
quickly ... ;)
--
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
I think that's what I said in the previous email. They can't license and
patent a product that is freely distributed and their profit has been is in
support of the open source product and that has created a high degree of
instability for a commercial product.