Boxed version of Fedora

[Rahul Sundaram]

Karsten 'quaid' Wade wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 01:19 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>> As the current FAQ maintainer and the one who added that particular 
>> answer to the FAQ, let me point out some details for additional context.
> 
> ...
> 
>> When Red Hat decided to create the Red Hat Linux Project which later got 
>> renamed in Fedora Project, Red Hat published this particular answer as a 
>>   result of it's experience (and dealing with loses in a retail product) 
>> while creating Red Hat Linux releases roughly twice a year and I copied 
>> it over from http://fedora.redhat.com pages when I created the FAQs 
>> since I knew that site was going away soon at that time.
>>
>> A lot of details have changed and Fedora Project of today is a different 
>> beast (or angel if you will). We could certainly reevaluate our 
>> considerations and IMO we should.
> 
> It is worth pointing out that you did not have experience from inside of
> a rapidly moving distribution trying also to be a retail boxed product,
> right? There were very good reasons that model was a PITA and it was
> dropped, reasons that haven't changed since then.

Depends on the reasons. Some of them like the pain of commercially 
supporting a retailed box product that gets released frequently does not 
apply to Fedora. If you have a Fedora store, selling a box as one of 
several items available seems very logical and what users would expect.

Rahul