What is the fascination with 'spins'

[monty19@ hotmail.com]

>I think it is a bit early to declare custom spins a silly idea. Even if it
>doesn't turn out to be that useful for Fedora directly, there is a 
>potential
>for it to be useful for third parties. I think making it easy to define
>custom spins is an interesting experiment and that we will need to wait a
>bit before we find out whether or not it is a really useful feature or not.

I was not suggesting that custom spins are a silly idea.  Like I said in my 
original message, "I'm not saying that the ability to create your own disc 
with just the software you want is necessarilly a bad thing either; it's 
just that with the current route there are going to be a lot more people 
making their own discs, than downloading the ones created by the Fedora 
team, and then what's the point of releasing any at all?"

Rather it's just that the only 1.90GB "Desktop" image I've seen/downloaded 
seems sorely lacking, as compared to what I perceive as most users wanting.  
Granted my view could be skewed and wrong...

Also, everyone keeps talking about these tools to make it easy to create 
your own spin.  If it's going to be a simple to use Linux/Windows (for the 
new users) binary that downloads everything you say you want, creates an 
ISO, and then all you have to do is burn it an install per the usual, then I 
guess who cares what is released as far as Fedora created ISO images.

But, I haven't seen these tools; only vague mention of them so far (do they 
exist?) so what I'm looking at is the image(s) that Fedora is releasing.  If 
the tools for creating your own ISO are simple, user friendly, and really do 
cover every step of the download/creation process, save actually burning the 
disc, then I guess it would negate any concern about what 'default' (for 
lack of a better word) images Fedora is releasing...

Afterall what's the difference between downloading a large ISO image, and 
downloading a small utility that downloads everything it needs to create a 
large ISO image and creates it all behind the scenes...