FC2 doubtful quality?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Jun 22, 2004, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>> Unhappy customer: "This car I got from you last week doesn't run
>> well at all.  Sometimes, it doesn't start and, every so often, it
>> stalls, even on the freeway at high speed."
>
>> Salesman: "Well then fix it.  You have the tools."
>
> Customer/Salesman, eh?  How is the conversation about related in any
> way with the Fedora community?

in a general but, IMHO, relevant way.  even if FC is free, red hat and the 
fedora community in general are still "selling" it in the sense that they 
want people to use it, no?  the fact that people are getting it for free 
doesn't detract from the fact that there's definitely some salesmanship 
going on.

direct from the fedora "about" page, you read:

   "By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system
   more in line with the ideals of free software and more appealing to the
   open source community."

that's salesmanship right there, even if no money changes hands.

rday