Re: Fedora news

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:05:41PM +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> Yo!
> 
> I get a weird feeling reading this ZDNews article...
> 
>  <http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5534343.html>
> 
> First about ZDNet: Hey folks, this all is really not about 'gratis software' 
> at all.  I don't have the impression Mr. Shankland understands this at all.
> 
> RedHat: are they - again - trying to duplicate Debian (and other community 
> driven projects)?  Fedora Extra --> something like apt-get.org, or a mix 
> between that and contrib?  Allowing outsiders to get patches into Fedora? 
> Wow, I thought that's what community support meant in the first place.  I 
> didn't realize they failed that miserably in the first place.  And, oh, 
> yes, PPC and AMD64 support. Great news, isn't it.
> 
> I really wonder if RedHat wouldn't be better off by just switching to being 
> a Debian-based distribution - they'd have their community here, and RH has 
> the manpower to enhance Debian enough to sell it as a product of their 
> own...

But how would they lock people into RedHat if it was Debian based? :)

I always got the impression Fedora was about getting free testing and
work for getting the next version of RHEL ready without letting the
volunteers have any say in how things should be done.

Len Sorensen