Comment Re:Pot, meet kettle. (Score 1) 500
The original Fedora research team at Cornell put out software in the year 2000. This was the first reference implementation and was freely available. Evidence of this original distribution can be found in the Internet Archive at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000819130403/www.cs.c ornell.edu/cdlrg/FEDORA.html
The current Cornell/Virginia team re-developed Fedora to be XML-based and web-services compliant. This is the new software that was released in May 2003.