On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 16:17 -0600, Adam Miller wrote: >> Nope, not at all. I work on it because it interests me and I do have >> hopes that others will enjoy the results just as those who put in the >> effort to make it happen, but I don't have the unrealistic expectation >> for the Spin(s) that I work on to take over the market share of the >> prom queen. This is honestly part of why I asked the question you >> quoted because if the end goal is to stop the Spins in their tracks >> then I will simply move from "Spin" to "Remix" with a different logo >> set as to not walk on the lines of TM issues. It makes no difference >> to me, I think it would be a bit of a slap in the face to some but it >> bothers me absolutely zero. I get to do what I want, contribute to >> Fedora and my over all desktop experience doesn't change (I would just >> miss the pretty Fedora logo). > > I don't get the impression that the board wants spins to stop. Far from > it. What I think the board wants is to help settle vision and focus and > arguments when a spin wants a package to work one way, and the default > offering wants the package to work another way. In these scenarios > there needs to be a default, a target to shoot for, an experience we're > trying to provide in our default offering, and that needs to "win" over > a spin which focuses on something else. Or at least this is one benefit > to defining a target audience. <snip> As far as saying that the default image will win over others in terms of packaging or technical reason, I completely agree that this should be in place but I thought that's how it was now. It is however *highly* possible that I'm just incorrect in that thought process. Uhmmm... that was really just a random side thought ... but over all +1 -AdamM -- http://maxamillion.googlepages.com --------------------------------------------------------- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
