On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Cristian Gafton <gafton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 00:23 +0200, Max Spevack wrote: >> I think for the 5 year anniversary we need all the old-skool guys to >> write in to f-a-b and tell one of their favorite Fedora stories. >> >> /me looks around in the tubes for Gafton ... > Some of the current highly visible members of the community were > predicting the total failure of the project because of the "incredible > greed" shown by Red Hat for splitting/spitting/spewing out Fedora on its > own, for lack of real support from the company, half hearted community In googling for those phrases one finds: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Bono_Hats with Red hat – emotions Blue hat – process control not sure why greed spew fedora red hat put that on the top of my searches.. but I think that would summarize the first 5 years in a nut shell. Lots of emotions and then process control. > building measures, etc. I'm not saying that times were not tough, but > contrasting where Fedora is today with the barrage of doubt that > surrounded the start of the project would provide for a deeply > satisfying yell of "Well, how about that, you mo-fo-s!" > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
