Co-branding?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed Mar 26 09:07:55 UTC 2008
Nayyar Ahmad wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org <mailto:sundaram at fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
>
> JoergSimon wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 26. März 2008 02:20:03 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:
> >
> >> Should there be some
> >> of co-branding within the distribution and a prominent hint in other
> >> places?
> >> Something like Fedora - Powered by Red Hat/ Sponsored by Red Hat
> or some
> >> such.
> >
> > -1 from me
> > Rahul, the 1.April is next week ;-)
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/RedHatContributions <- is this not
> enough?
>
> A typical Fedora user wouldn't ever see this and the point isn't really
> credit but continuity from Red Hat Linux. Long term contributors might
> and people who are actively involved in the linux community will but not
> regular end users who just use the distribution which is the large
> majority wouldn't. They will just see the bootup screen and background.
> Even the website is somewhat a secondary audience but since we have now
> a start.fp.o home page that is more prominent too.
>
>
> btw, what would be the impact if an ordinary Linux user d'nt know about
> who is the sponsor of the Distro he/she is using?
As I already explained, Fedora releases have a long standing legacy of
Red Hat Linux releases. We are losing long term users and potential
contributors who aren't aware of the transition. There are a number of
sub projects which take advantage of this continuing including EPEL.
Rahul
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