Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction

[Rik van Riel]

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 ... ;)

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