Re: [tlug] Fedora Project.

[Neil Bortnak <nbortnak@example.com>]

Hmmm. I'm not so sure. I figured that RedHat was spending too much on
the free distribution, and was taking a lot of flack for, slowly but
surely, becoming the new Microsoft of Linux.

Fedora let's them kill too birds with one stone. It let's the community
have a much larger degree of control than it had previously, and RedHat
can redirect more of it's efforts into it's profitable business line.

I doubt you will see it as a cooker. I think you will see this become
the standard RedHat desktop for non-paying clients, with normal release
and beta cycles just as we have become accustomed too. It doesn't make
sense for RedHat to let it's consumer/small business release become too
bleeding edge, a-la cooker. It hurts their reputation and some of those
people may just decide to pay later.

Everyone seems to win in this arrangement. The community gets a lot more
say in how their distribution runs, Fedora project gets a huge influx of
money and talent, RedHat reduces their bottom line (not to 0 as they
still support Fedora with cash and developers, just a lot less than
before) and has the ability to port good ideas from Fedora in to their
business line.

I don't really see a lot of downside, and for the first time in a while
I'm hearing some real positive buzz about RedHat in the community. I'm
kind of excited myself.

It's a very shrewd move by RedHat.

Neil


On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 20:00, Botond Botyanszki wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:07:37 -0500
> "Pedro Jara Palma" <pdjara@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > I have read some of this in fedora.redhat.com, is cool!!! i think is
> > like a debian but with newer released software, maybe more buggy but
> > what the hell!!! redhat inc. is gonna use the community for testing and
> > development purpose for free for the development of their RedHat
> > Advanced Server, but i hope that the Fedora project will be powerful
> > enough to override this fact.
> 
> >From what I understand so far, Fedora will be rather like what Cooker is
> for Mandrake. I have read similar comments elswhere and it is a mistake to
> think that this will be another debian. Sorry to disappoint you, but it's
> impossible to gather such a momentum, quality, respect and developers in a
> few months, something that took the Debian Project 10 years.
> I kinda got the impression that ReadHat wants to use the community for
> free labor to create 'experimental' and then you can only get 'stable' for
> money. 
> This would be the right time to jump ship if you are still a RedHat
> user...
> 
> 
> -- 
> B0Ti.