On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 12:59 -0500, Max Spevack wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Josh Boyer wrote: > > > To be fair, Luis has a point. OLPC semi-counts. It's another Red Hat > > driven (and funded) project, however with a much more philanthropic > > goal. If RHEL (and Red Hat) were to disappear today, I believe Fedora > > would live on. But I believe it would live on as a shadow of it's > > current state today for quite some time. > > As Elliot Lee once said, "my goal at work is to make myself unnecessary". > > If Red Hat disappeared tomorrow, would Fedora be in better shape than if > Red Hat had disappeared a year ago? Yes. > > As long as that statement is still true a year from now, we're doing the > right things. Sure, and I'm not saying Fedora isn't heading in the right direction. I think it truly is. All I was saying is that without dedicated, paid people work on Fedora, it would move at a much slower pace for some time. But it would still evolve. And that is most definitely because of work that's been done over the life of the project. > Part of my job (and you guys are the ones who tell me when I'm doing it > well and when I'm dropping the ball) is to make sure that the resources > Red Hat *does* give to Fedora are in the best interests of Fedora as a > community project. And all the credit in the world here to Jeremy Katz > for his tireless work in selling the Fedora 7 vision (which is all about > using Red Hat resources to make Fedora both better and more indepenent) to > lots of folks within Red Hat. Of course. Fedora 7 is by far the largest step I've seen so far and I can't wait for it to be realized. josh _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
