[NTLUG:Discuss] Redhat Offerings -- the Red Hat bashing tour isback!

[Justin M. Forbes]

On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 01:52:25PM -0700, Kevin Hulse wrote:
> 
> It is has been forked into something that Redhat
> is no longer comfortable in associating themselves
> with directly.
> 
Actually Fedora is something Red Hat associates itself with quit well.  The
actual reason for the split of Fedora/Red Hat was simply to support more
community involvement.  Red Hat needs to protect it's trademark and to do
so, it has to be a bit more strict with use than they would like for a
community product.  Fedora is trademarked, and needs to be protected to an
extent, but in the end, the rules around use of the trademark are much less
strict.  I can promise you this, as I had to deal with the trademark issue
when the first did the x86_64 preview release (not a Red Hat release).

Justin