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"Fedora" Contributes to Name Confusion

Posted by: Prototerm on May 07, 2004 01:38 AM
They had a name that didn't confuse our customers and industry analysts

This quote in the article is in reference to "Fedora". It constantly annoys me to see Red Hat appropriate the name of another project (as I mentioned before, by Cornell University and the University of Virginia), and pretend the other guys don't exist.

If they want to avoid confusion, they should rename what they call "Fedora" to something else. If it is intended to be for the consumer, they should call it "Red Hat Consumer Linux (RHCL), and clarify the matter completely.

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