On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 17:26 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
So I'm going to ask this question to you, the friendly Fedora
marketing
team.
But first, a history lesson:
http://lwn.net/Articles/83360/
This is pretty much the most accurate depiction of how the great brand
gulf between Fedora and Red Hat started. And in many people's minds, that
gulf has grown to such an extent that many don't have any way of
associating Red Hat with Fedora *at all*.
So let me ask you:
If, in splash screens for Fedora, we put a tasteful "sponsored by Red Hat"
with the Shadowman logo somewhere small... how would you all feel about
that?
I'd say that things have changed a lot since that was written. What were
those statistics that Max pointed out a while ago? Over 50% of packages
are now maintained by the community; the build system is now completely
open; anybody can gain the trust of the project and be allowed to work
on essential infra; the list goes on!
With this in mind, I see no problem with thanking Red Hat and linking
ourselves with their strong brand in a subtle manner. But maybe we ought
to do more to promote the massive achievements in community growing that
have happened lately...
Jon