On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Beth Lynn Eicher bethlynn@fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:17 AM, inode0 inode0@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:15 AM, inode0 inode0@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Dan Mashal dan.mashal@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Does Fedora or Red Hat have any plans to have some kind of exhibit for CES 2013?
No.
I don't have any idea what Red Hat might have for plans but Fedora doesn't have any plans to attend at this point.
I was at CES 2012 and I am registered for 2013.
Red Hat and Fedora were not.
Canonical was present. The booth was staffed with people who were making no apologies for their proprietary products, in fact they were pushing them. They were showing off Ubuntu on ARM, Ubuntu One, Ubuntu corporate desktop support, and Ubuntu TV. It is worth mentioning, that they were all out of media and stickers since the community constituency was in attendance.
Microsoft was present but it was heavily rumored that they would not exhibit in 2013 because they were not guaranteed their CEO a keynote spot. I was also at the Steve Balmer's final CES keynote in 2012 where Windows 8 was hyped. Trust me, I face palmed when Microsoft took credit for innovations that I have seen in Free Software.
The picture you paint is the picture I have in my mind although I have never attended CES, one only interested in open source for the ways they might be able to use it to their economic advantage. Perhaps it isn't fair for me to hope for anything more but I feel like I do see more when I attend SELF, OLF, TXLF. Given that a reasonable presence at CES would cost more than we spend on SELF, OLF, and TXLF combined I am having a hard time supporting funding that given our limited budget.
I'm going to +1 Fedora @ CES2013. Many embedded products that run the Linux kernel are there. Moreover, there is abundant evidence that today's slot machines use GNU/Linux. The success of Sugar on OLPC hardware proves that Fedora is a fine choice for deployments that must work in the long haul.
I would rather take that money and do something directly with people doing cool hacking on solar cars or robots than slot machines and routers. My two cents.
John