Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 08:31 +1200, Michael J. Knox wrote:
Stephen Krenzel wrote:
I agree, but no one is going to give any money as long as Fedora is
perceived to be backed by Red Hat. I have to admit, Fedora *is* Red
Hat's baby, just as Ubuntu is Shuttleworth's baby, and OpenSuse is
Novell's baby. I don't think that a lot of people would donate to any of
these projects, except for a few exceptions. If OpenSuse started asking
for money, people would laugh, a similar outcome would result with
Fedora as well. I'm not sure what kind of resources it would take, but
getting Red Hat or some other organization to donate a chunk of cash to
Fedora so that we could give away free CDs ( similar to Ubuntu ) is the
only way I really see any of these media plans working. Ubuntu set the
"media distribution" bar high, and we aren't anywhere near it right now.
I don't think it is reasonable, nor wise, to ask someone to sit on a
waiting list, especially when they can just go to a different
distribution's site and be guaranteed a cd in a relatively short period
of time. We simply are not being competitive enough in this aspect of
marketing Fedora. This is not to put down the efforts that Fedora has
made thus far, but until someone finds a way to allow free CDs (or a
dvd) to be distributed for free upon request, our efforts will be
compared to Ubuntu's and claimed to be second rate at best.
-Steve
[snipped]
Might a naive question, but why doesn't RedHat offer some backing to
this effort then?
Michael
Shipping media internationally is very cost ineffective. The funds are
better put into improving important Free software projects.
I don't doubt that for a second. Nor was I suggesting RH foot the entire
bill.
Myself, I am more than happy suppling New Zealand any media requests.
However, Could RH not assist, even for local (as in US) media requests?
Then that can relieve the burden of US request and allow the continual
search for other sponsors to assist with other global regions?
Michael
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