ons, 26 07 2006 kl. 23:17 -0400, skrev Matthew Miller: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 05:04:01AM +0200, David Nielsen wrote: > > > http://fedora.redhat.com/about/objectives.html > > Is this official, I don't honestly get why this is an objective for > > Fedora - not that we should make it hard to derive distros from Fedora > > but to single out Red Hat is inviting those RHEL beta comments we've > > been fighting so hard. > > Pretty official, yeah. And I don't think it hurts to admit it, because Red > Hat is indeed paying a large portion of the bills. So long as they pay their developers, they get to tell them what to spend their time on.. right? It appears to be Red Hat' opinion that telling their employees to contribute to Fedora gives them a good return on their investment. I tend to agree, they get influence on the direction of the project and they get to take what Fedora produces for the specific purpose of making money doing what Red Hat does namely supporting software. If I was in the business Red Hat is in, I would definitely want to be part of Fedora as well, along side of Red Hat if at all possible. Fedora is an awesome piece of work and there's business enough to go round adapting and supporting it for special cases. That however still doesn't make it Fedoras mission in life to be a RHEL beta nor is it even a perfect fit for that but it makes a good product for them to adapt to their needs - imagine having to ensure 7 years of ABI/API stability on every single Fedora release.. eek. - David Nielsen -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
