Re: Fedora's mid-life crisis

[Bob Staaf <rstaaf bellsouth net>]

On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 17:34 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
> 
> This might lead to interesting changes in the project. Watch out!
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/242965
> 
> "The Fedora project has a solid base to build on and an increasingly 
> open community process to help it get to where it wants to be. With the 
> right focus on an interesting set of goals, Fedora could surprise the 
> world. This distribution should have no trouble proving that it's not 
> over the hill yet."
> 
> Rahul
> 

This wouldn't also happen to be somewhat related to the recent news
articles about a new product from Red Hat called the "Red Hat Global
Desktop"?  The articles seem to indicate there is a delay in the release
until September at least partly due to research into whether to include
non-FOSS codecs in the release???

http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4294334547.html
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/07/08/04/1117234.shtml
http://www.linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2007080303126OPRHSW

Any seems a lot of changes may be coming down the pike!

Bob