OK all, firstly, I'd like to say I'm slightly embarrassed - I always like to think that I'm polite and positive in what I say and certainly on this occasion that's not been the case! So, yeah, firstly apologies for what I said previously... like people said, the points were valid but the tone certainly wasn't. Secondly, whether or not this gets used (I'm uncertain of the preferred direction following the comments so far in this thread), here is a re-worked version - as always more comments and feedback is welcome :) ------------- Hi there, I was just sending a quick note to you as I was slightly disappointed when I read your article. Mostly, I just wanted to let you know that the Fedora Project isn't a development release for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but rather a mature and stable distribution in it's own right, which aims to promote the latest and greatest in free and open source software. One of our proudest points as a community of contributors is that we help drive innovation in free and open source software by ensuring all the exciting work we do each release is quickly fed upstream, allowing all to benefit from it. It's because of this that a lot of our code ends up in RHEL, and also in the majority of the major distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian and oepnSUSE. Another point that we take significant pride in is that the majority of the packages that make up the distribution (over 60%) are maintained by non-Red Hat members. Interestingly, it's been recently decided that the governance of Fedora would change from there being a majority of people on the board appointed by Red Hat, to a majority of people being elected by the community. I hope these points might be of interest to you, and would love to invite you to start a dialogue with the project so that in the future we can work together to make your life a little easier :) Feel free to send an e-mail to press AT fedoraproject DOT org anytime, and someone will be more than happy to help. Best wishes, ---------------- -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
