Hi
The problem is not why Red Hat did what it did. IMO the main
problem is that Red Hat totally hid the Fedora Project from its
users in the discontinutaion email that sent them.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/redhat-watch-list/2004-April/msg00000.html
which leads to
http://www.redhat.com/solutions/business/migration/
It said
that's all, no free lunch anymore. I was in the Real World Linux
Expo last week. Again, there was the Red Hat booth, with no sign
or name of the Fedora Project. Somebody giving a talk mentioned
it, just that. To me, it seems like Red Hat is trying to hide
Fedora, in the fear that they lose their customers, while we all
know that it can't be true.
Fedora Project in linked from the homepage of http://redhat.com. We have
an exclusive Fedora users and developers conference aka FUDcon.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDConVideos (FUDcon 1)
http://www.redhat.com/magazine/006apr05/departments/fedora_status/
(FUDcon 2)
Red Hat magazine covers articles on Fedora and its status every month.
Fedora Project related news is posted regularly in many major websites.
Fedora is after all the official Red Hat. How can we ever hide that ;-)
People do not buy Red Hat simply
because Red Hat does not provide a free version. There are a
zillion free distros out there. For more than 99 percent of
personal (nonbusiness) users out there, Fedora is at least as
good as Red Hat Linux was. This 99 percent never received any
support from Red Hat. Never ever. But Red Hat makes it sound
like Fedora is something community driven so low quality.
All of the Fedora Core development is done by Red Hat employees which
contains a good number of software developed by the community.
Encouring the community to participate in the process through efforts
like Fedora Extras and Fedora Legacy only helps to enhance it obviously
regards
Rahul
