Proposal for the new Fedora Project

[Mike McGrath]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Colin Walters wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Imagine that technology applied to actual applications.... That run
> >> anywhere HTML5 does.  Our idea of the desktop is gone.
>
> Except that you still need an OS to actually *run* these things.  So -
> are you proposing Fedora continue the OS?  Or do we just make
> apps/infrastucture, and tell people you need to install Windows or OS
> X?
>
> If we're continuing the OS, then what's stopping anyone from starting
> work on the next Skywriter, whether hosted at fedorahosted, github, or
> mozilla?  Do you think applying the Fedora brand is going to jumpstart
> things?  Or having Red Hat's brand sort-of behind it?
>
> >>  Not just from Red Hat
>
> Here's the problem - Fedora as currently run has a benefit to Red Hat,
> because we (and here I'm speaking as a RH employee) ship an enterprise
> general purpose OS, and that's why the money is applied.  If we're
> talking about something totally different, how does RH benefit?

I'm pretty sure we ship an enterprise server product.  Not a general
purpose one.  This shift would focus efforts to virtualization (RH has
that) cloud computing (RH is working on that) and middleware (RH has
that).  The synergy abounds.

	-Mike