Red Hat is trying to trademark the name of Fedora for their Fedora Project. Since 1998, Cornell University and University of Virginia have been working on the open source Fedora Project. Different software, same name. Red Hat has so far refused to stop the trademark application for the name, as requested by the two universities.
This really isn't all that interesting, but I think it *could* be interesting, depending on what Red Hat decides to do. I'd call it "Top Hat Project", or "Ten Gallon Hat Project" or something else.. and just accept that someone else is using the name.
Posted by Kevin at November 20, 2003 03:05 PM