On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 03:36 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Red Hat contributes quite heavily to the Linux kernel > (http://lwn.net/Articles/222773/) or to GNOME too which is even hosted > by Red Hat (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions). Does > it make it a Red Hat product? Red Hat provides Fedora, and provides for it. To all intents and purposes it's a Fedora product, whether it's "sold" or not. I don't see any reason to pretend otherwise, it's not something of an offensive nature that you'd want to distance yourself from. If Red Hat flogged off oranges, they would just be oranges, not Red Hat thingoes. If Red Hat bundled together a package containing oranges, lemons, pineapples and grapes, that package would be a product of Red Hat. Red Hat has created a product, the Fedora project. Even though they've handed the reigns over to many external forces (user participation, etc.), that doesn't really stop it being their product. And I imagine that if someone came up with their own distribution of Linux, which had absolutely nothing to do with Fedora, but called it so, they'd get hot under the collar about it. -- (This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
