Turning off Paid Adverts for Sponsored Media
Michael J. Knox
michael at knox.net.nz
Tue May 2 20:31:22 UTC 2006
Stephen Krenzel wrote:
> I agree, but no one is going to give any money as long as Fedora is
> perceived to be backed by Red Hat. I have to admit, Fedora *is* Red
> Hat's baby, just as Ubuntu is Shuttleworth's baby, and OpenSuse is
> Novell's baby. I don't think that a lot of people would donate to any of
> these projects, except for a few exceptions. If OpenSuse started asking
> for money, people would laugh, a similar outcome would result with
> Fedora as well. I'm not sure what kind of resources it would take, but
> getting Red Hat or some other organization to donate a chunk of cash to
> Fedora so that we could give away free CDs ( similar to Ubuntu ) is the
> only way I really see any of these media plans working. Ubuntu set the
> "media distribution" bar high, and we aren't anywhere near it right now.
> I don't think it is reasonable, nor wise, to ask someone to sit on a
> waiting list, especially when they can just go to a different
> distribution's site and be guaranteed a cd in a relatively short period
> of time. We simply are not being competitive enough in this aspect of
> marketing Fedora. This is not to put down the efforts that Fedora has
> made thus far, but until someone finds a way to allow free CDs (or a
> dvd) to be distributed for free upon request, our efforts will be
> compared to Ubuntu's and claimed to be second rate at best.
> -Steve
[snipped]
Might a naive question, but why doesn't RedHat offer some backing to
this effort then?
Michael
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