early coverage of fedora 8

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 23 17:23:52 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 12:52 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Greg DeKoenigsberg (gdk at redhat.com) said: 
> > On Tue, 23 Oct 2007, seth vidal wrote:
> >
> >> Lovely article. It's nice that the things we were worried about wrt
> >> codec buddy are being pointed out in the press.
> >>
> >> "sermon"
> >> "Functionality aside, the introduction of a special relationship between
> >> a community distribution and a company is one that may leave many users
> >> uneasy."
> >
> > Bruce Byfield is a sharp dude.
> 
> Note that he's complaining about the sermon that the board specifically asked
> for.

yes - and he's citing the concern we specifically mentioned, too: "odd
how we're in bed with a company with this stuff"

the sermon I don't mind - we're preachy as a rule, anyway.

-sv





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