RE: Fedora's mid-life crisis

["Bob Staaf" <rstaaf bellsouth net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rahul Sundaram [mailto:sundaram fedoraproject org]
> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 10:11 AM
> To: rstaaf bellsouth net; For discussions about marketing and expanding
> the Fedora user base
> Subject: Re: Fedora's mid-life crisis
> 
> Bob Staaf wrote:
> >>
> >
> > 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"?
> 
> I am not sure where do you see any relation. What the focus of Fedora
> itself should be is different from what any derivative distribution is
> doing. Did you read the article?
> 
> Rahul

Yes I did read the article at the link you provided.  I wasn't trying to
make any kind of statement, it was a question.  I had read all the recent
articles regarding the Red Hat Global Desktop and talk of proprietary codecs
and what would appear to be a product outside of the typical enterprise
focus of current Red Hat products and then today I see what appears to be
indications of a change or at least talk of a change in focus for Fedora.  

I have been a Red Hat user since 6.0, cut my Linux teeth on the hacked up
version of Red Hat that Cobalt used on their old Raq3 servers.  I went from
that to 6.2 on my own co-located servers and have used every version of Red
Hat since.  Having already been through a change with my favorite disto, I
get touchy when there is talk of messing with the focus of Redhat and now
Fedora.

Again, my email was a question and not any kind of statement....

Thanks

Bob