[fab] fedora slashdot interview

David Barzilay barzilay at redhat.com
Wed Aug 2 18:38:49 UTC 2006


Nice move, Max.

We can never stop online hoaxes or misinformed articles, so I also 
believe we should always opt for the clarifying method.

People speculate a bunch, we explain whassup, then judgement is up to 
the readers ;)

Now my question: do you intend to go against the assumption that Red Hat 
"neglected its Fedora desktop users"?

Best,
--
db

Max Spevack wrote:
> So after seeing today's /. story that had quite a few comments about 
> Fedora/RH, I pinged the guys over there to see if they would be 
> interested in doing an interview directly -- try to get a fresh 
> perspective about what's going on in the Fedora world.
>
> What follows is the last email in our thread so far, and it looks like 
> it's going to happen next week, unless something holds it up.
>
> I fully intend to have all of the answers come directly out of my 
> fingers (no corporate-speak, etc.) but I'm sure that the questions 
> which are posted will generate some discussion here.
>
> Nothing more to add now -- let's just wait until it actually happens. 
> This is just a heads up.
>
> --Max
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 14:03:26 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Max Spevack <mspevack at redhat.com>
> To: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller <robin at roblimo.com>
> Cc: malda at slashdot.org, scuttlemonkey at slashdot.org
> Subject: Re: Fedora interview on Slashdot?
>
> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote:
>
>> Shall we put up the "call for questions" Monday? Do you have a bio 
>> page or other link we should reference in that post?
>
> That sounds great.  Fedora's home is fedoraproject.org (for linking 
> purposes), and the best page about me for bio purposes is found there.
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MaxSpevack
>
> Couple quick questions for you:
>
> 1.  Do you do any editing of the answers, or just post them directly? 
> I'm assuming the latter, which is what I'm hoping for.
>
> 2.  I would be appreciative if you would use the Fedora logo either 
> instead of or alongside Shadowman in the article summary.  I've 
> attached an image that you should be able to modify/use without too 
> much trouble.
>
> 3.  fedora.redhat.com is deprecated, and we are working hard to 
> transition away from that URL.  So if you would be kind enough to use 
> fedoraproject.org in your links, I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Thanks, looking forward to the interview.
>
> --Max
>
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