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21Feb/082

Fedora Issues Cease & Desist against DataPortability

Red Hat, Inc. ("Red Hat") recently became aware that on your website, located at http://www.dataportability.org, you are using art work that is identical to the Fedora Infinity design logo owned by Red Hat.

Specifically, I am referring to two images on your site: the green and white logo, as well as the blue and white logo.

Personally, I think this is ridiculous.  Thoughts and comments are welcome here.  I'm not going to write any more, so that I keep myself from ranting.

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  • Electron

    What the hell? Are they flippin’ blind?

    Fedora “infinity” logo: http://fedoranews.org/cms/files/fedoraLogo_infinity.png

    Dataportability logo:
    http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2209/2162236149_395c929274_o.gif

    It couldn’t be clearer to a three-year-old that the Fedora logo merely vaguely resembles the dataportability one. Not only are they differently coloured, but they are also surrounded by (completely) differently-shaped backgrounds, but the Fedora one clearly shows an “f” inside of it, while DP contains a “d”. The corners are rounded quite differently, and neither is the white-green transition (a straight line where the green ends and white begins) similar to the Fedora one, which ends in a rounded manner.

    In my opinion they would look alike to somebody who is intentionally trying to be inconvenient for the other party, for example, someone sending a cease-and-desist letter.

    Red Hat sucks. I’m never using a site I know is hosted by Red Hat servers again.

  • Nickyn00

    … Are they trying to say that using a slanted infinity sign in your logo is copying them? That’s ridiculous.

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