Good one Jonathan, thumps up ...<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Jonathan Roberts <<a href="mailto:jonrob@fedoraproject.org">jonrob@fedoraproject.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
OK all, firstly, I'd like to say I'm slightly embarrassed - I always<br>
like to think that I'm polite and positive in what I say and certainly<br>
on this occasion that's not been the case! So, yeah, firstly apologies<br>
for what I said previously... like people said, the points were valid<br>
but the tone certainly wasn't.<br>
<br>
Secondly, whether or not this gets used (I'm uncertain of the<br>
preferred direction following the comments so far in this thread),<br>
here is a re-worked version - as always more comments and feedback is<br>
welcome :)<br>
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Hi there,<br>
<br>
I was just sending a quick note to you as I was slightly disappointed<br>
when I read your article. Mostly, I just wanted to let you know that<br>
the Fedora Project isn't a development release for Red Hat Enterprise<br>
Linux, but rather a mature and stable distribution in it's own right,<br>
which aims to promote the latest and greatest in free and open source<br>
software.<br>
<br>
One of our proudest points as a community of contributors is that we<br>
help drive innovation in free and open source software by ensuring all<br>
the exciting work we do each release is quickly fed upstream, allowing<br>
all to benefit from it. It's because of this that a lot of our code<br>
ends up in RHEL, and also in the majority of the major distributions<br>
such as Ubuntu, Debian and oepnSUSE.<br>
<br>
Another point that we take significant pride in is that the majority<br>
of the packages that make up the distribution (over 60%) are<br>
maintained by non-Red Hat members. Interestingly, it's been recently<br>
decided that the governance of Fedora would change from there being a<br>
majority of people on the board appointed by Red Hat, to a majority of<br>
people being elected by the community.<br>
<br>
I hope these points might be of interest to you, and would love to<br>
invite you to start a dialogue with the project so that in the future<br>
we can work together to make your life a little easier :) Feel free to<br>
send an e-mail to press AT fedoraproject DOT org anytime, and<br>
someone will be more than happy to help.<br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
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