Frenkie, I totally agree with you, Robyn, and Nicu about this. I wish we could do something about it. On 04/20/2011 06:57 AM, Frankie Mangoa wrote: > Wait a minute. > I dont know but I think in my opinion that some people are seeing > this very differently from some of us. > It is important for us to have something to show it is a fedora > desktop and I am a very strong believer of that. > > Linux is good and even though we have "small market share" I think it > is important for us to note the fact hat we must still show it is our > own brand. this is what makes us proud that one is using fedora and > the other ubuntu and so on. > > I believe that it is healthy to have competition between brand because > it raises the expectation bench mark every time. > If on did not do this we would probably be in the archaic days. > > If we looked at this analogy across the world and not only on > Operating systems but also on cars. > some major companies but others. maybe car company A could buy car company B. > They do not brand that this is so. they try and give the user an > experience t show that they are totally different. > > We all know what is under the bone is from one firm but the body work > is what distinguishes the product in such a case. > > This is just my opinion and I may be wrong but something tells me this > is heathy. > > frankie > > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Rahul Sundaram<metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi >> >> http://dissociatedpress.net/2011/04/18/fedora-and-gnome-branding-drama-missing-the-big-picture/ >> >> "I’m not saying this to belittle Fedora — but to put this whole thing >> into perspective. Arguing over branding here is /just plain silly/. >> Depending on which side you’re on, it may validate your “team” (GNOME >> vs. Fedora, I guess) but it’s /utterly irrelevant/ when it comes to >> having an impact on Fedora adoption. At best it’s a distraction from >> actually increasing the market share of Linux — and at worst it’s a >> validation of the argument that community driven projects fail due to >> infighting." >> >> Rahul >> -- >> marketing mailing list >> marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing -- marketing mailing list marketing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing