Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Matej Cepl]

On 2007-05-15, 16:45 GMT, William Case wrote:
> I use Fedora because I like the thought that it is cutting 
> edge, etc. What I would like to know is: Are the contributions 
> of users to fixing Fedora picked up by other distributions 
> and/or up the line for applications?

Whatever other people think about Red Hat being a corporate 
behemot, I can testify, that in a Red Hat training I heard on my 
ears high-level engineering people to stress repeatedly and very 
forcefully, that any patch we make and solution we find for 
a bug, should be immediately send upstream. Which I think is one 
of the things which differentiates us against many other Linux 
distributions. That's not bashing of Ubuntu and/or SuSE -- they 
have their reasons for being what they are, just that I can 
confirm that even inside Red Hat there is strong official stress 
on upstreaming everything reasonable.

Matej