Red Hat, on more than one occasion, has made the task of building Fedora's credibility a huge challenge with their public statements. Max did a great thing with slashdot, and that greatly helped the situation, but more is needed. Red Hat needs the support of the community, and they get that through Fedora. If any of you are fortunate enough to have a role or influence in Red Hat's official stance on such issues, I feel it is best that Red Hat starts presenting Fedora as more of a RHEL without support and more cutting edge software, rather than as RHEL's demented step-brother. This is of course all just my opinion, but this is what Red Hat's stance often appears like to me as an outside observer. If you know me, you know that I'm an avid promoter of Fedora, but having Red Hat publically back such statements would make life easier for everyone. Please note, that the intent of this message is in no way to discredit Red Hat, nor do I wish to appear thankless for all that Red Hat has done, I'm just trying to make the situation better. <div>On 8/31/06, Paul W. Frields <<a href="mailto:stickster@gmail.com">stickster@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 02:28 +0530, Rahul wrote: > Thomas Canniot wrote: > > Did I miss something, or RH CTO has problem with Fedora first Myth ? > > > > <a href="http://ipcommunications.tmcnet.com/news/2006/08/25/195490.htm?p=ica"> http://ipcommunications.tmcnet.com/news/2006/08/25/195490.htm?p=ica</a> > > > > "We're convinced that there is a better way to develop software, so what > > we did is we blew up the notion of an Alpha and we use Fedora as an > > alpha." > > > > Followed by > > "The engineers are goaled on not just producing enterprise quality > software, but driving it through upstream in terms of the community. I wonder if, in addition to dropping the words "alpha" and "beta," we can also gently remind the CTO that "goal" is a noun. :-) -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE and English Dictator <a href="http://paul.frields.org/">http://paul.frields.org/</a> gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project Board: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board </a> Fedora Docs Project: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject</a> -- Fedora-marketing-list mailing list <a href="mailto:Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com"> Fedora-marketing-list@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list</a> </blockquote></div>