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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