Re: Question about our Brand

[David Nalley <david gnsa us>]

Paul Stauffer wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:34:21PM -0400, David Nalley wrote:
>> Fedora is heavily linked - I would say Beta version - because the two
> 
> Argh.  Please avoid using the word "beta", or even terms like "proving
> ground"!

Quite right, I intended to say "wouldn't". That is what I get for typing
while distracted.

> 
> Language like this just serves to further the widespread mistaken impression
> that Fedora only exists as some sort of experimental test subject for RHEL,
> and encourages the idea that Fedora is not a production-quality distro in
> its own right.
> 
> Fedora is the major upstream source for RHEL.  As such, it has great value
> to Red Hat, and so Red Hat supports it.  I think that should be the simple
> summary of the relationship which any ambassador should be able to explain.
> 
> - Paul
>