[user3939382]

IMHO the proper purpose of trademarks should be to prevent consumer confusion. From that perspective, it’s absurd to have to dance around mentioning a trademark in a context where you’re explicitly stating that your product is different from it.

[0xcde4c3db]

Tell that to Red Hat's lawyers [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20071114044958/http://www.centos...

[protomyth]

I rather doubt IBM's lawyers are more friendly about trademark use.

[selectodude]

Better safe than to wake up the Nazgul.

[phkahler]

>> From that perspective, it’s absurd to have to dance around mentioning a trademark in a context where you’re explicitly stating that your product is different from it.

I don't think being a downstream release of RedHat very different from it. In fact, that's kind of the point.