Why would I want Fedora?

[Steven Moix]

Hi,

On 05/15/2009 05:00 PM, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote:
>> How about;
>> "Fedora is similar to proprietary operating systems like
>>   Microsoft Windows and provides an easy and powerful graphical
>>   environment, office suite, games and more. It is a secure and virus-free
>> experience with brand new releases full of major improvements every six
>> months all for free (both in terms of cost, and ability to change the
>> underlying code to suit your own needs)."
>
> Isn't it similar to *BSD too ?
>
> "Fedora is an Operating System, just like Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac
> OS X or<insert as many as you want, keeping in mind that too few can
> hurt people and too much will bore the reader>  ... "
>
> There's one thing that is concerning me.
>
> When I submitted a game package in fedora, I had a description similar
> to "this game is in the style of<name of a commercial game>" and I
> was told to remove the reference to a commercial trademark not owned
> by the Fedora Project as it could cause legal issues.
>
> Aren't we in a similar case by writing this kind of stuff on our wiki page ?

IMO we should NOT use comparisons, the moment you start to do this, you 
acknowledge that you are a follower instead of a leader. Fedora is what 
it is, a full OS that you can use for millions of things and this is how 
we should market it.

Steven