On Tue, Jan 07, 2020 at 11:37:28AM -0600, Joe Doss wrote: > > If anyone has a handy generous multi-millionaire up their sleeve, > > please call Matt. :) > *coughs* Red Hat... Red Hat *does* contribute millions of dollars to Fedora annually in time, hardware, and of course literal money. Disclaimer: the below is my view and opinions and I'm not speaking for Red Hat officially. I'm definitely over here on the open source side not the business side. That said: Red Hat has also always invested its marketing dollars in _product_; the sponsorship of Fedora is _mostly_ from an engineering side. I'd *like* to get more for these wider efforts, but in a very real way that Red Hat investment is like the investment of anyone voluntarily contributing. We each focus on the things that we care about personally. Red Hat puts some money towards community health and growth (and funds the FCAIC position to support that), but the main interest is in Fedora as a good RHEL upstream from the RHEL engineering part of the company. Do I think we could use money from Red Hat for marketing Fedora in a way that would ultimately benefit the company? Yes, yes I do. But this competes with, say, investment needed to close deals with large telecom providers or ineternational banks, and because Red Hat is an enterprise product company and likes near-term and *predictable* long-termreturn on investment... so, well, here we are, doing the best with what we can. Or, tl;dr: if we want to be successful as a community, we can't count on Red Hat for everything. -- Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
