Red Hat unleashed legal proceedings against Daniel Pokok ( Daniel Pocock ), associated with a violation of the Fedora brand in the domain name wemakefedora.org , which published criticism with respect to the participants of the Fedora and Red Hat project. Representatives of Red Hat demanded to transfer the company’s right to domain, as it violates the registered trademark, but the court rose to the side defendant And ruled on the maintenance of the rights to the domain for the current owner.
The court indicated that in accordance with WeMakefedora.org information published on WeMakefedora.org, the author’s activities fall into the category of conscientious use of the trademark, since the Fedora name is used by the respondent to identify the subject of the site, which publishes criticism against Red Hat. The site itself is non-commercial and its author does not try to give it for the result of the activities of Red Hat or enter the users’ error.
Daniel Pocon was previously part of the Fedora and Debian developers and was engaged in escorting a number of packages , but as a result of conflict joined to confrontation with the community, began to troll some participants and publish Criticize , mainly aimed against the imposition of the code of conduct, interference with the community and promotion of various initiatives conducted by activists of achievements for social justice.
For example, Daniel tried to draw attention to the activities of Molly de Blanc (Molly de Blanc), which, in his opinion, under the guise of promotion of the Code of Behavior, was engaged in injury to disagree with her point of view and tried to manipulate the behavior of the community participants (Molly is the author of the open letter against collapse).
For his caustic statements, Daniel Pockech was blocked by such projects as Debian, Fedora, FSF Europe, Alpine Linux and Fosdem, but continued to attack their sites. Red Hat tried to capture one of their sites under the guise of a brand violation, but the court rose to Daniel.