Delay? Looks bad for Fedora

[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 20:59, Torrey Hoffman wrote:
> > On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Mark Hutchinson wrote:
> [...]
> > > The move to fedora was a mistake for RedHat.  
> [...]
> 
> > WELL SAID!
> 
> > RH have damaged there excellent name with this move, and being
> > with the distro since it first came to life many moons ago, I never
> > thought I'd see the day where I would even *dream* about considering using
> > another flavour, but sadly RH have forced that into a reality, that unless
> > reversed, I feel will also see thousands more move away from the distro.
> 
> I completely disagree.

As do I. I've been using Linux since late 1996/early 1997, and we use a
lot of Red Hat at my office -- probably somewhere in the vicinity of 200
boxes total. Some of it is 7.x on Alphas, some of it 7.3, 8.0 or 9 on
x86. We are moving our workstations to Fedora Core soon after the "gold"
release.

Because of the tremendous effort and thoughtful planning that Red Hat
(and others) put into the Fedora project before backing it, this
distribution is likely to become everything that United Linux could have
been but didn't... community-driven, open-ended, freely available and
guided by true experts who are not trying to just drop by and cash in on
the Linux hype. (*cough*Caldera*cough*)

The changes that have already been made (such as to up2date) are going
to make it even easier for me to maintain all my systems at home and
work, *without* having to rely on paying Red Hat for their Red Hat
Network offering. And they didn't have to do that, but they *did* --
simply because they have a LONG history of Doing The Right Thing.

I think Fedora is fantastic, fecund, fabulous and forward-thinking. I'm
looking forward to the next ten years of Red Hat's work in the Linux
field, and can't wait for the opportunity to participate a little more
in the process.

-- 
Paul W. Frields <paul at frields.com>