Before Red Hat used the name "Fedora" for their new consumer Linux dist, the name was used by computer scientists at Cornell University who was working on a project named fedora "flexible extensible digital object repository architecture."
Red Hat has now filed trademarks on name and treating it as such on their site, ignoring protests from the scientists at Cornell University. The scientists hadn?t trademarked the name because they are a research project rather than a commercial project and never had interests in grabbing the name.
But now the researchers are facing many support requests from Linux people and they are considering what to do to oppose Red Hat.

Read on at Cnet