Logo -- dog wearing fedora hat with blue gradient "box" in front, then zoom in on box ...

Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org
Wed Aug 24 01:28:38 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 18:55 -0500, Patrick Barnes wrote:
> Definitely better.  Although the dog idea might be a good one,

I think the tag/collar is a seller (regardless of the animal/size).
<pun>Hats off</pun> to Jesse Keating for realizing that!

> the involvement of the hat is another story.  That's a no-can-do. 

???  Would Red Hat(R) claim copyright  ???  If so, why?  I mean, Fedora
is already a trademark and it has guidelines, set by Red Hat.  So I
don't see a problem for something distributed under those guidelines.
Why did Red Hat stick with the name "Fedora" if it can't be a hat???

> Personally, I like retrievers and shepherds more, but I guess we'd just
> have to see what people could come up with.  I'll leave it at that for now.

Agreed.  I think the "element" makes a good tag/collar regardless.

Anyone disagree?
Please do speak up (AFAIAC, this should not be the "get along" list).



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