Yeah, I looked at that.  Fedora very clever acronym, but I doubt anyone will 
confuse the Linux distribution with their software.  More importantly, I don't 
understand what UVA and Cornell are up to.  What kind of restrictions on the 
term have they faced?  Is that press release a C and D for Red Hat?  They 
should both be able to use the name without problems.  

On 2003.11.20 11:59 Joey Kelly wrote:
> It seems that Cornell  University and the University of Virginia claim prior 
> art regarding the name Fedora. They've used it for 5 years now for one of 
> their open source projects. Redhat seems not to care about their claims:
> 
> http://www.fedora.info/fedora.htm
> -- 
> 
> 

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