[in the news] Fedora, open source trademarks and FUD

[Kara Schiltz]

InternetNews.com
12.11.09

Fedora, open source trademarks and FUD
By Sean Michael Kerner

Among the most interesting sessions that I sat in on at the FUDcon 
Fedora user/developer conference which wrapped up earlier this week was 
a discussion on trademarks.

Trademarks and open source have an interesting and often confusing 
relationship. The whole point of open source is freedom of code and 
usage. Yet there is still a need (for some) to protect name and 
ultimately their brands as well.

Full article:
http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/12/fedora-open-source-trademarks.html