Fedora naming proposal

Jon Ciesla limburgher at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 15:35:11 UTC 2012


On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 14:11 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Lynn Dixon <boodaddy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > That makes perfect sense! Matching the release number with the atomic number
>> > is a great idea.
>> > So, here's my updated name suggestions:
>> > Fedora 18 Agile Argon
>> > Fedora 19 Perfect Potassium
>>
>> Why are you adding Agile and Perfect to the front of the names? It
>> makes it sound like some other distribution. Why not just Argon or
>> Potassium?
>
> *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.

That makes sense, but *please* no alliteration, for aforementioned reasons.

-J

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