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Well, they did not "override" Fedora Linux name, because Fedora Commons preceded its OS counterpart by a couple years and has a trademark for the Fedora logo: h
by smarx007 9y ago
Well, they did not "override" Fedora Linux name, because Fedora Commons preceded its OS counterpart by a couple years and has a trademark for the Fedora logo: http://fedora-commons.org/about http://fedora-commons.org/about
By repository they mean digital asset management repository instead of a version control system repository.
- je42 9y agoso may be start with explaining that this is not a repository as a developer would expect.
- smarx007 9y agoI think they represent the library community more than the dev community and are a bit stubborn to use the terms familiar to us (IMO).
- neuromantik8086 9y agoI mean, why wouldn't librarians be stubborn with respect to jargon? The intended audience clearly isn't Hacker News and the terms of the trade predate the tech community by decades in many cases- it doesn't make sense to just throw terminology to the wind. It'd be like if a bunch of Frenchmen suddenly invaded England and forced them to speak French, even though English was perfectly sufficient for communication already. Oh wait...