Fedora naming proposal

[Jon Ciesla]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 July 2012 10:06, Jon Ciesla <limburgher at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>> > *IANAL ALERT*
>>>> >
>>>> > I think there's an advantage to added an adjective to the front in that
>>>> > it makes it less likely there's a trademark conflict.
>>>>
>>> On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 10:35 -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
>>>> That makes sense, but *please* no alliteration, for aforementioned reasons.
>>>
>>> Some ideas to differentiate:
>>>
>>> - Adverbs instead of adjectives
>>
>> Interesting.
>>
>>> - Rhymes instead of alliteration
>>
>> I like it, but difficult to do with many elements.  The only thing I
>> can think of that rhymes with oxygen is doxygen.
>
> doesn't xen rhyme with oxygen? Or is oxygen like orange

True.  It's things ending in 'inium' that get hairy.

> In any case, the issue is that elements are trademarked left and
> right. Planets, mythology, astronomy are trademarked left and right.
> Which brings up the question.. when does trying to avoid trademark
> problems take longer and more work than it takes to have something
> fun? Especially when it is something so ethereal to only last a year
> to 18 months?

Yeah.  <sigh>

>
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