Fedora name stolen by another project :(

Chuck Anderson cra at WPI.EDU
Fri Oct 19 03:54:14 UTC 2007


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...




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