Co-branding?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Diaa Radwan wrote:
> On 03/26/2008 03:20 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was talking recently to a couple of friends who aren't in the 
>> software industry and it came out in our recent discussions that both 
>> the companies they are working for is using Fedora on their systems. 
>> They remarked that they had no idea that Red Hat was involved in Fedora.
>>
>> I still meet people in various places who think Red Hat has stopped 
>> working on a free distribution after Red Hat Linux 9 and continue to 
>> use it or worse a earlier version.
>>
>> I just looked within Fedora to see if there was any hint and couldn't 
>> really find any prominent ones. The note on http://fedoraproject.org 
>> is also easily missed. Is this a deliberate decision? 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.
> 
> I think this will bring us back 2 years. One of the major advantage 
> given by Red hat; is we got transparent build process; all tools used is 
> GPL'ed, all these efforts are done to invite and welcome contributers, I  will
> think co-branding will do exact the opposite.

Free software with branding is still Free software and will continue to 
stay that way. This discussion is orthogonal to that.

Rahul