Fedora, Red Hat, and the community

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 08:54:38AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> 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.

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

I think that there will always be some supicious minds looking at a
big company working with the community about whether the goals can be
the same, or whether there are hidden agendas to exploit the community
etc.

So instead of trying to justify this I would make a forward attack and
state that a big company profits from supporting community goals
for the sake of the community itself. And the community profits from
being exploited that way. Isn't this what Open Source is about?
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net