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.
What the hell? Are they flippin' blind?
ReplyDeleteFedora "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.
... Are they trying to say that using a slanted infinity sign in your logo is copying
ReplyDeletethem? That's ridiculous.