Associating the Red Hat and Fedora brands?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 31 23:58:54 UTC 2008


Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> 
> So I'm going to ask this question to you, the friendly Fedora marketing 
> team.
> 
> But first, a history lesson:
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/83360/
> 
> This is pretty much the most accurate depiction of how the great brand 
> gulf between Fedora and Red Hat started.  And in many people's minds, 
> that gulf has grown to such an extent that many don't have any way of 
> associating Red Hat with Fedora *at all*.
> 
> So let me ask you:
> 
> If, in splash screens for Fedora, we put a tasteful "sponsored by Red 
> Hat" with the Shadowman logo somewhere small... how would you all feel 
> about that?

A bit of a odd thing going on here. I just suggested a very similar idea 
very recently in the list and two people quoted you to show why I 
shouldn't do this. Apparently now that you are for it, I guess it is ok.

Rahul




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