On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:56:59PM +0100, Jonas Karlsson wrote: > > After reading a lot of pressreleases and surfing around reading papers > in magazines about fedora, I keep wondering what is Fedora? And > specifically what is fedora to the general pulic! Don't get me wrong, > I've known linux since before RedHat was born, and been a fedora user > since early pre fc1. Why do I raise this question then? Well the tought > that occurs to me is: is fedora a community driven project or is it a > Redhat EL playground. Today it is both.... But when you read > pressreleases and info about fedora in the papers, fedora do not stand > on its own. Many magazines writes similair to: "Fedora is the test > version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux" and to me that has the sound of a > product in development or in beta. Then there are magazines that > occationally get it right and talks about a community driven project, > and the next thing that occurs is you read a copyright notice. When > installing F10 you get a "Copyright © 2003-2008 RedHat, Inc. and others. > All rights reserved." Well there is the 'others' part... but it do not > have the sound of community, well others.... I'm not writing this as an > against RH thing, if it hadn't been for RH, 'the linux os' wouldn't > progressed to what it is today. I'm writing this because I think it is > not entirely clear what fedora is to the general public. This is > important to gain ground, to get the message out that fedora is not a > testbed product, but a product that incorporates new leading edge > features. > > Am I compleatly wrong or have anyone of you been asking the question, > what is fedora? Fedora is the way how Red Hat contribute to Open Source and Community. -- Anton -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list Fedora-marketing-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list
