Hi, This is just a little thought, wouldn't that sentence/title just The Inquirier's sarcastic (and funny) touch to the published article? which is kind of a regular procedure for them as far as IT news reporting is concerned?
At the end of the day, Fedora is the community-driven disribution strong throughout the years, whereas RHEL is just the commercial product. -Ilyes On Jun 1, 2012 5:22 PM, "Emanuel Rietveld" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 06/01/2012 05:02 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 02:03:19AM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote: >> >>> On 05/31/2012 03:27 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote: >>> >>>> Red Hat people who contribute to Fedora are community too. There's >>>> not a dividing line with the community on one side, and Red Hat on the >>>> other. >>>> >>> > This is a very positive viewpoint and I'm glad that it gets expressed here > and other places. Still, there are some ways, of course also due to > history, in which the Fedora Project and Red Hat are not completely > independent. > > Red Hat ultimately controls the Fedora trademark and the Fedora domain > names, and pays for the Fedora infrastructure. What is shown on Fedora > websites, and what is called Fedora, is ultimately under Red Hat control. > This leaves Red Hat in an unique 'negotiation position' for influencing the > direction of the project that other contributors do not have. > > Complete independence would mean that the trademark, domain names, and > infrastructure are under the control of a legally and functionally separate > entity, which is donation funded. I am not necessarily taking the position > that such an arrangement would be beneficial to Fedora, just saying that > such a level of independence would be subtly, yet significantly, different > from the current situation. > > It would take explicit marketing effort from both Red Hat and Fedora > Project for 'the public' to see Fedora as larger than Red Hat; to see Red > Hat as a community member, a small contributor, working to the larger whole > of Fedora. Especially considering that this is, in several important > senses, not true. > > Let's take a step back. Most of the negative influence of the Red Hat > relationship on the Fedora brand is the idea that Fedora is a lower quality > product than RHEL, which Fedora is eventually 'distilled to'. That > perspective is crucial for Red Hat's business positioning, and is probably > true for Red Hat's customers, but it is not true in general. > > Fedora and Red Hat serve vastly different purposes, and for many purposes, > RHEL is the inferior product. To whom is Fedora the better quality product > and do those users read the inquirer? > -- > marketing mailing list > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > https://admin.fedoraproject.**org/mailman/listinfo/marketing<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing>
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