What does this mean?

Posted Sep 24, 2008 9:20 UTC (Wed) by dark (guest, #8483)
Parent article: Orange Sombrero 9 Released - based on Fedora

I feel like I've gotten one message from the middle of a flame war, and it'll only make sense if I go back up the thread for 100 messages to figure out the context. By which time I will have forgotten why I was reading it in the first place.

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What does this mean?

Posted Sep 24, 2008 14:02 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

Someone appartently thinks that by naming their one-patch-away-from-Fedora distro in a
ridiculous fashion they will get Red Hat to change its trademark policies. Someone should point
him at Cheap Bytes and the Pink Tie Linux cd set that they distributed for years. CentOS just
claims to be similar to a "Popular North American distribution". Personally, I think would be
almost-Fedora and almost-RHEL distributors should just look to how brick and mortar retail
solved this problem decades ago. These kinds of trademard issues are nothing new, after all:

ValueQueen Linux (Compare to Fedora*)

* ValueQueen Linux is not distributed by Red Hat, Inc or its subsidiaries.

What does this mean?

Posted Sep 24, 2008 16:25 UTC (Wed) by proski (guest, #104) [Link]

I cannot imagine any serious distro to be announced like that.