Red Hat fails to take WeMakeFedora.org [LWN.net]

Red Hat fails to take WeMakeFedora.org

Posted Mar 15, 2022 17:23 UTC (Tue) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
Parent article: Red Hat fails to take WeMakeFedora.org

This strikes me as especially odd:

> Complainant says it has not consented to Respondent’s use of the domain name. However, in an email dated March 30, 2021 (Exhibit 101), Complainant consented to Respondent’s use of the domain name so long as the website followed Complainant’s trademark guidelines relating to Community sites and accounts.

Does Red Hat's left hand not know what its right hand is doing?

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Red Hat fails to take WeMakeFedora.org

Posted Mar 15, 2022 18:00 UTC (Tue) by chris_se (subscriber, #99706) [Link] (2 responses)

> > Complainant says it has not consented to Respondent’s use of the domain name. However, in an email dated March 30, 2021 (Exhibit 101), Complainant consented to Respondent’s use of the domain name so long as the website followed Complainant’s trademark guidelines relating to Community sites and accounts.
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> Does Red Hat's left hand not know what its right hand is doing?

Just speculating, but maybe this was clumsily worded by RedHat and they actually meant to say that they withdrew their consent? Things did take a turn for the worse last fall when it comes to this topic, and the referenced email is from roughly 6 months before that.

Red Hat fails to take WeMakeFedora.org

Posted Mar 15, 2022 20:02 UTC (Tue) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325) [Link] (1 responses)

The opinion quotes those guidelines, which include this statement:

> While these online community sites and accounts are not officially endorsed by the Fedora Project or Red Hat, because they are part of the Fedora Community (and use the Fedora trademarks to identify themselves), their site owners, moderators, administrators, and users are required to comply with the Fedora Code of Conduct. Community sites and accounts which are unable to meet this standard of conduct will be required to cease use of the Fedora trademarks, and will be not be promoted/advertised by Fedora. Our intent is for all Fedora community members to have a positive and welcoming experience in all community spaces, official and unofficial.

Going by some of the other allegations in these comments and prior LWN discussions of this individual, I would have expected Red Hat to specifically allege a violation of this requirement. The fact that they (apparently) failed to do so suggests to me a rather severe level of organizational dysfunction on their part.

Red Hat fails to take WeMakeFedora.org

Posted Mar 16, 2022 0:04 UTC (Wed) by shemminger (subscriber, #5739) [Link]

More likely RH doesn't want into a counter suit for slander.