To avoid misunderstandings, this repository is about a project at Cornell University named the Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture (FEDORA), not a Red Hat one.
macintux•51m ago
And predates Fedora by about 6 years.
cevn•39m ago
I was ready to be mad in the comments, now I'm mad but in the other direction.
Both. '...all parties settled on a co-existence agreement that stated that the Cornell-UVA project could use the name when clearly associated with open source software for digital object repository systems and that Red Hat could use the name when it was clearly associated with open source computer operating systems.'
fodmap•58m ago
macintux•51m ago
cevn•39m ago
phkahler•35m ago
tsak•31m ago
> The term fedora was in use as early as 1891.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora#History)
fodmap•26m ago
https://fedorarepository.org/about/our-history/
RickJWagner•38m ago