Fedora name stolen by another project :(

[Keith G. Robertson-Turner]

See for yourself:

http://www.fedora.info/

It /is/ an Open Source project, however they must surely have known
about the /real/ Fedora project when they summarily took our name.

Not good.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
>  See for yourself:
>  
>  http://www.fedora.info/
>  
>  It /is/ an Open Source project, however they must surely have known
>  about the /real/ Fedora project when they summarily took our name.
>  
>  Not good. 
Though the project has recently renamed itself from Fedora Project to 
Fedora Commons, it has existed for a long time. See

http://fedora.info/redHat.shtml

Every now and then people tend to rediscover it.

Rahul

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:43:43AM +0100, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
>  See for yourself:
>  http://www.fedora.info/
>  It /is/ an Open Source project, however they must surely have known
>  about the /real/ Fedora project when they summarily took our name. 
<http://www.fedora.info/about/history.shtml>

Predates Fedora, even Warren's original Fedora repository. Basically, both
projects were using the name in their own little worlds for several years
before either became a big deal.


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Matthew Miller           mattdm(a)mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>
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[Chuck Anderson]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:38:21PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
>  On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 01:43:43AM +0100, Keith G. Robertson-Turner
> wrote:
>  > See for yourself:
>  > http://www.fedora.info/
>  > It /is/ an Open Source project, however they must surely have known
>  > about the /real/ Fedora project when they summarily took our name.
>  
>  <http://www.fedora.info/about/history.shtml>
>  
>  Predates Fedora, even Warren's original Fedora repository. Basically, both
>  projects were using the name in their own little worlds for several years
>  before either became a big deal. 
Has anyone thought about packaging Fedora for Fedora?  Now that would 
be confusing...

[Keith G. Robertson-Turner]

Verily I say unto thee, that Chuck Anderson spake thusly:
>  On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:38:21PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > Predates Fedora, even Warren's original Fedora repository.
> > Basically, both projects were using the name in their own little
> > worlds for several years before either became a big deal. 
Thanks for the heads-up. I must admit I have never heard of that /other/
Fedora until today (syndicate feed from LXer I think).

>  Has anyone thought about packaging Fedora for Fedora?  Now that
> would
>  be confusing... 
:)

I just had a chat with someone on #fedora-devel (IRC) who seemed to
think it depended on JBoss, if that's any help.