Media: Red Hat confuses Linux users with latest Fedora moves

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

While the Fedora 21 news has been very positive overall, I wanted to
highlight one article which makes it clear we need to explain the broader
picture of RHEL, CentOS and Fedora with the new product split

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2843687/linux/red-hat-fedora-confuses-li...

Rahul

[Scott Dowdle]

Rahul,

----- Original Message -----
>  While the Fedora 21 news has been very positive overall, I wanted to
>  highlight one article which makes it clear we need to explain the
>  broader picture of RHEL, CentOS and Fedora with the new product
>  split
>  
>  http://www.infoworld.com/article/2843687/linux/red-hat-fedora-confuses-li...
As far as I can tell Paul Venezia (the guy who wrote that for his "The Deep End"
column) is nothing but a click-bait disinformation spreader.  If he misunderstands (and I
refused to read that article), then we are probably doing fine.  There are two other IT
journalists that I can think of that are also in this category but I'm having trouble
remembering their names.

TYL,
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[Paul W. Frields]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:52:29AM -0700, Scott Dowdle wrote:
>  Rahul,
>  
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  > While the Fedora 21 news has been very positive overall, I wanted to
>  > highlight one article which makes it clear we need to explain the
>  > broader picture of RHEL, CentOS and Fedora with the new product
>  > split
>  > 
>  >
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/2843687/linux/red-hat-fedora-confuses-li...
>  
>  As far as I can tell Paul Venezia (the guy who wrote that for his
>  "The Deep End" column) is nothing but a click-bait disinformation
>  spreader.  If he misunderstands (and I refused to read that
>  article), then we are probably doing fine.  There are two other IT
>  journalists that I can think of that are also in this category but
>  I'm having trouble remembering their names. 
Probably best not to call them out; our purpose here isn't to diss
writers.  But your opinion's noted.  We should realize no amount of
work is going to keep someone from writing what they want to get page
views. :-)

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[Jason Brooks]

----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Rahul Sundaram" <metherid(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  To: "For discussions about marketing and expanding the Fedora user base"
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>  Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 7:21:50 AM
>  Subject: Media: Red Hat confuses Linux users with latest Fedora moves
>  
>  Hi
>  
>  While the Fedora 21 news has been very positive overall, I wanted to
>  highlight one article which makes it clear we need to explain the broader
>  picture of RHEL, CentOS and Fedora with the new product split
>  
>  http://www.infoworld.com/article/2843687/linux/red-hat-fedora-confuses-li...
Here's some material that might be useful:

http://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/#_positioning

Jason


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