On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 01:02:07PM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > Which brings us to the OEM vendor issue which I talked to you (Greg) > about a few months ago. Vendors want to pre-install the popular distro, > things that people know, say Fedora. When you say OEM and Vendors here, I presume you don't mean any of the large hardware vendors (Dell, IBM, HP, ...), as none of these, due to their product reseller relationships with Red Hat, distribute Fedora as a product (Fedora is not a product...). > However they also want to be able to value-add to their customers, > such as hardware tools (Raid managers), support tools (click me to > get customer support), modules for new hardware, etc... These types > of things would normally cause the vendor to have to go the route of > removing logos and calling it something else, thus confusing the > customer base. > > Instead I would really like to see an OEM program where they can still > call it Fedora, or Fedora Plus or something along those lines, and still > use the Logo. Clearly hardware vendors do this with RHEL today, it must be a solvable issue (or a non-issue). Thanks, Matt
