-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Karsten Wade escribió: > On Sat, 2007-06-09 at 20:53 -0500, Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote: > >> If anything about Fedora I do not agree with (keep in mind I'm a >> die-hard-supporter and fan of the distribution) is precisely the name. >> Not because of anything else, but because Red Hat *deliberately* >> depleted the word of meaning... So others wouldn't be "confused", but >> that actually turned out to be even more confusing. > > I admit this whole thing has confused me, as well. I think it was less > a situation of "choice" and more one of "organic growth." We had moved > ahead with the merger of RHL and Fedora.us into a single project, picked > a name, and put a distribution out with that name, before anyone noticed > we had created the "hat" problem. I know it wasn't "intentional" at first, as that what it was all about (Red Hat using another "hat" as its community branch, or so it seemed back then), however when the whole issue about the growth of Fedora and the direction the distribution was heading (by the time FC 4 was about to be released), with the change of "identity" and the "prohibition" to associate Fedora (inherently a hat) with Red Hat (pretty much back then still the "parent" company) started this whole mess. The matter complicated even more as the distribution had gained great exposure, acceptance and recognition... This was a problem, as changing the name at this point, would have most likely generated reactions similar to those back when the project was first announced, and the cancellation of the old-style RHL distribution was in progress in favor of RHEL. However now that Red Hat has somewhat admitted that Fedora has become its "upstream", I don't see the harm in the "hat" association, but that's the field of the marketing guys and a bunch of stuff I simply don't get. > > Remember Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be > adequately explained by stupidity." > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor Indeed... Maybe the project should have been named differently from the start... But the name stuck and grew. > > - Karsten -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGciz4XM+XOp70dwoRArnIAJ9EIM18eCmyGKNDYMs7rqvDtsMFgwCghE+a A+/mhhLLgTphNAHwY45zHpk= =5E2Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
