Fedora, Red Hat, and the community

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 14:45 +0200, Yaakov Nemoy wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The recent Board discussion highlights that despite efforts to the
> > contrary, there is still a Us vs. Them mentality in Fedora when it comes
> > to the community and Red Hat.  Rather than write out a very long and
> > preachy email about why that shouldn't be, I'm going to take a different
> > approach.
> 
> Just my 0.02 USD, I think people are more afraid of there being a Red
> Hat bias, and there is this odd hyper awareness that some people are
> Red Hat and some people are not.  I think Red Hat has received pretty
> good confidences and trust from the community so far.  Furthermore,
> many of the 'Red Hat' people are really as much Fedora as they are Red
> Hat.  I think people recognize this more than we might think.
> 
> (Yes, that sentence is a contradiction.)

That's my observation as well.  But I wanted to give people an
opportunity to spell out specific items that bother them.

josh