Re: [tlug] Fedora Project.

[marc <marc@example.com>]

as RH's budget on marketing is quite high (1/3 - 2/5 ?), 
and as they provide special support for large network companies, 
RH8 -> RH$ ... ??? 
this seems to be an interesting point of view ... 

if so, there should be in a near future some major restructuration in the 
Linux world, to face these new economic rules ... 

Marc

> Neil Bortnak wrote : 
> 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.