Re: Co-branding?
Diaa Radwan wrote:
On 03/26/2008 03:20 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was talking recently to a couple of friends who aren't in the
> software industry and it came out in our recent discussions that both
> the companies they are working for is using Fedora on their systems.
> They remarked that they had no idea that Red Hat was involved in Fedora.
>
> I still meet people in various places who think Red Hat has stopped
> working on a free distribution after Red Hat Linux 9 and continue to
> use it or worse a earlier version.
>
> I just looked within Fedora to see if there was any hint and couldn't
> really find any prominent ones. The note on http://fedoraproject.org
> is also easily missed. Is this a deliberate decision? Should there be
> some of co-branding within the distribution and a prominent hint in
> other places?
>
> Something like Fedora - Powered by Red Hat/ Sponsored by Red Hat or
> some such.
I think this will bring us back 2 years. One of the major advantage
given by Red hat; is we got transparent build process; all tools used is
GPL'ed, all these efforts are done to invite and welcome contributers, I will
think co-branding will do exact the opposite.
Free software with branding is still Free software and will continue to
stay that way. This discussion is orthogonal to that.
Rahul