reviving Fedora Legacy

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 23:37 -0500, Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Chris Weyl <cweyl at alumni.drew.edu> wrote:
> >
> > What does it say about freedom, when we say
> > "Use Fedora and be free! ...except, you know, how you want to."  Why
> > are we spending so much time and effort saying no, instead of getting
> > out of the way of those who are interested in doing it and watching it
> > succeed or fail on its merits?
> 
> "We" are saying no because "they" want "us" to do something, rather
> than doing it themselves.  All of the software that goes into
> producing Fedora is free (in both the Beer and Speech senses).  What
> *isn't* free is the infrastructure that goes into producing Fedora
> releases (the power/cooling/bandwidth/hardware as well as the time of
> the various employees and volunteers).   *I* think that Red Hat has
> been extremely generous in letting us use that infrastructure to build
> a cool distribution like Fedora.
Well, it had been RH's deliberate decision to do so.

/me thinks, they actually had no other choice at that time.

> But why should Red Hat (and those of us that believe in the current
> Fedora mission) let that infrastructure and perhaps more importantly
> the Fedora brand get used for some "Fedora LTS" project?
Marketing, customer bonding, ... ?

>   Based upon
> the failure of the Fedora Legacy project and the most recent
> discussion there are only a few people interested in volunteering
> their time to such a project.  And from what I've seen in this latest
> discussion the LTS project goals are either ill-defined or
> overambitious or both.
Your opinion.

Ralf