long term support release

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 23:47 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008 11:38 PM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
> > Also, wouldn't you consider the fact Ubuntu launches "Ubuntu LTS" to be
> > evidence enough that others see a market nice?
> 
> I'm pretty sure that Ubuntu LTS is something that Canonical as a
> business entity as chosen to launch and leverages as part of its
> business model and is not in point of fact relying primarily on
> community manpower to make the LTS offering actually work.  Find me a
> business entity who would like to do something similar in Fedora space
> and I'll gladly talk to them about making room in the project.
There is one difference between Fedora and Ubuntu: 

* Fedora is backed up by an actively contributing community.
* RH/fedoraproject.org has the technical resources.

There is only one thing missing: a culture of openness and a lack of
confidence into the powers of open development.

Ralf