On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 13:48 -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > No offense, but you seem to have a very unusual idea about how much leverage > > Fedora has anywhere. Why would hardware vendors listen to a community > > distribution that they never preinstall, have no plans to preinstall, and > > brings them absolutely no money? > > MJG was saying that (some?) vendors were willing/interested to install > a Fedora/Redhat key but that the belief was that leveraging the MSFT > process a better outcome due to the cost of running an equivalent > service to MSFT's. > > ::shrugs:: > > How can we know our strength if we do not try? Pre-installing another key is trivial and painless for them, so sure, it doesn't cost them anything to say 'yes' when we float the idea. Creating and administering a root key, though, is a substantial undertaking that no-one's particularly keen to do. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
