Fedora's mid-life crisis
Bryan J. Smith
thebs413 at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 6 15:02:48 UTC 2007
Greg Dekoenigsberg <gdk at redhat.com> wrote:
> The primary target market is people who love free software, and who
> want to work *actively* to make free software better. All other
> markets are secondary. Important, but secondary.
I don't think people realize how important it is to have a truly
free, indemnification issue free, 100% redistributable distribution
that can be proliferated and redistributed by others. I have hardly
shared any my contributions, been largely a "leech" when I deploy and
utilize Fedora and add my own RPMs, etc...
For this, I continue to salute Fedora, like I did Red Hat Linux
prior. It's a Godsend in a very, very under-appreciated aspect of
Linux distributions. I'll defend select, other distros for the same
reasons as well -- but I professionally find Fedora's release model
and alignment the most advantageous.
Hopefully I'll have a position in the future that will let me
directly contribute to Fedora as a small part of my paid job function
(like I was on Debian long ago). Until then, I've always hesitated
to be a formal maintainer (which would be on my own time) because I
can't guarantee any upkeep. I know, poor excuse, especially with all
the benefits I have directly reaped from Fedora (and money I've made
as a consultant).
> Coming up with a suitable replacement for Pirut, for example.
Referring back to the aforementioned sign at the animal shelter I
mentioned. ;)
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Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance
b.j.smith at ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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