Mascot - Blue Arrara
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Apr 10 22:45:45 UTC 2007
Gian Paolo Mureddu wrote:
>
> I really do understand many of the detractors of the mascot idea.
> however there's one little tiny bit that I believe is missing: Fedora
> being the community project it is, and due to the issue with "parent
> company" Red Hat which has for all purposes depleted of meaning the word
> "Fedora" (which originally meant a kind of hat, specifically the "Red
> Hat" hat, had to find a "new meaning", hence the quest for the Logo.
> However the Logo is so heavily protected that it is pretty much useless
> for any "fan art"... and last I heard Fedora wasn't meant for
> corporations to adopt, nor is it intended for production machines
> (desktops or servers) despite of its capabilities. Is Fedora capable of
> being a good corporate desktop machine? Is Fedora capable of being an
> excellent workstation (for media content creation, development, etc)? Is
> Fedora capable of being a good and stable server? To all the previous
> questions the answer is "YES", but "Was it intended to be used as such
> in a production environment?" To that question, and take however you
> like, the answer is "NO".
Why?
http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/17/177220
I don't think we need to be judgmental about the role Fedora plays in
any end user system.
Rahul
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