Re: Re : Fedora Dispute

From: Matthew Miller (mattdm_at_mattdm.org)
Date: 05/08/05

  • Next message: lloyd545220-trucker_at_yahoo.com: "Re: Suggestions for laptop purchase for Fedora Core 3?" 
    Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 14:46:07 -0400
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

    On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 08:48:55AM -0500, Thomas Cameron wrote:
    > Red Hat is trademarking Fedora *as it relates to a Linux operating system
    > distribution.* Red Hat admits that Cornell/UVA have prior use and are not
    [...]
    > The Cornell/UVA folks and some people in the community are making more of
    > this than they need to. Red Hat is not the villain here. They are just
    > trying to protect the hard work they're doing with the Fedora distribution.
    > They have no desire to impinge on the Cornell/UVA folks, and it is a pretty
    > wild stretch of the imagination that this would ever happen.

    To me and you there isn't. To US trademark law, I don't think it's so clear.
    Trademarks need to be unique within one of the 45 official international
    classes of goods and services -- and class 42 is:

       CLASS 42 (Computer, scientific & legal)

       Scientific and technological services and research and design relating
       thereto: industrial analysis and research services; design and
       development of computer hardware and software; legal services.

    So, not only are operating systems and digital content management systems
    not legally distinct, we're not even particularly distinct from any other
    scientific services, or from legal services -- all the same thing as far as
    trademark distinctiveness goes. 

    -- 
Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org        <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux      ------>                <http://linux.bu.edu/>
Current office temperature: 73 degrees Fahrenheit.
-- 
fedora-list mailing list
fedora-list@redhat.com
To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
  • Next message: lloyd545220-trucker_at_yahoo.com: "Re: Suggestions for laptop purchase for Fedora Core 3?"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: Re : Fedora Dispute
      ... >>wanting to trademark the name Fedora. ... > Red Hat is trademarking Fedora *as it relates to a Linux operating system ... > their use of the Fedora name, according to Webbink." ... > They have no desire to impinge on the Cornell/UVA folks, ...
      (Fedora)
    • Re: Wanna give me a hand debunking this?
      ... facing server managed by Red Hat that runs fedora? ... operating system to use in a production environment. ... There are sites run by Red Hat people on Fedora - www.linux.org.uk is one ...
      (Fedora)
    • Fedora Foundation: DONT IGNORE
      ... Fedora Foundation Folks: many people don't seem know anything about what is going on, get the message saturated out there then talk about donations, and when talking about donations, explain why you would want to donate. ... creature made up of meriotcratic community folk. ... When Red Hat originally launched Red Hat Linux project which later merged with the earlier fedora.us effort into a Fedora Project, Red Hat announced its intention early about opening up its distribution into a community oriented development instead of merely providing a end product under a open source license. ...
      (Fedora)
    • Re: The answers to these "Death of RedHat threads"..
      ... > 'community' who seem to be looking elsewhere. ... When Fedora is released ) ... If you had a business model that attracted more small business ... But Red Hat Linux was designed to be "cutting-edge" stuff which was later ...
      (linux.redhat)
    • Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol 46, Issue 136
      ... Red Hat News - it's probably Classmate ... 4.6 and obviously Fedora 8 was on track. ... I have never heard of VirtualBox. ...
      (Fedora)