On 04/14/2010 12:19 PM, Mario Torre wrote: > You can definitely use the core version, but may you depend of vendor > specific plugins to do you job, just think about WebSphere or MyEclipse > with support for the Matisse graphics builder in Eclipse. The core question here stays: Should we *promote* openCore stuff in Fedora Marketing material. Please stay focused. Do we *promote* Eclipse in that sense? > You may say that the core version is good enough, but in my opinion is > not. So where's the boundary? It's completely user defined. Yep. So we should ship it but nor promote it. Good to see that these companies/projects care for Fedora and we should praise them for that, but we should not *promote* it. There are so many interesting real open projects in Fedora that definitely deserve to be promoted. > I know, it's a bit like comparing apples and oranges, but what I mean is > this: if a feature, as in software, is nice to have, and there are no > legal implications, that is, is fully conformant to our current rules > and guidelines, I don't see why we should not support it. A vendor has > the right to use and modify it's own software and sell it, with what you > may consider added values (and thus, a selling point, and more selling > means better chances to support the free code base). Again - the question was on *promoting* these projects/companies. Nut about support or having them in the distro. IMHO Fedora should use its marketing power to promote Open Solutions. Not comapny driven community stuff. Jan -- Jan H Wildeboer | EMEA Open Source Affairs | Office: +49 (0)89 205071-207 Red Hat GmbH | Mobile: +49 (0)174 33 23 249 Technopark II, Haus C | Fax: +49 (0)89 205071-111 Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 11 -15 | 85630 Grasbrunn | _____________________________________________________________________ Reg. Adresse: Red Hat GmbH, Technopark II, Haus C, Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 11 -15 85630 Grasbrunn, Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 153243 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Brendan Lane, Charlie Peters, Michael Cunningham, Charles Cachera _____________________________________________________________________ GPG Key: 3AC3C8AB Fingerprint: 3D1E C4E0 DD67 E16D E47A 9564 A72F 5C39 3AC3 C8AB -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing
