Developers responsibillity to Fedora Users

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Mon Sep 26 09:38:37 UTC 2011


On 09/22/2011 02:15 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> Alan Cox is exactly right that the users of Fedora products get them
> free and one can make a strong case that therefore Fedora developers
> have no responsibility to listen to user's complaints.
> 
> However, the Fedora users provide a service to the ReHat company of
> identifying bugs that otherwise would show up to annoy the paying users
> of RedHat Enterprise .
> 
> This is probably a weak argument to support the developers of Fedora
> software listening to its users but what is clear is the current
> situation leaves a bad taste in the mouths of the current Fedora
> user-base. Clearly developers can ignore our complaints, but I have no
> evidence that the paying Enterprise customers will be more tolerant of
> the strange direction that RedHat is taking.

This is all too vague for me to understand.  What are you talking about?

Andrew.



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