That is simply not true. Some of these features are not in
Red Hat's repository because we haven't gotten the time to
integrate them.
Nobody is stopping you from integrating these features
yourself. People can point their up2date at your apt/yum
repository and use the packages you are making available.
Lets face it, Red Hat is a company with finite resources
and the wishlist of all Linux users together is close to
infinite [1]. What is needed isn't Red Hat doubling the
amount of work done, but users getting the opportunity to
do part of the work themselves, together.
Then in this vein there needs to be a change in the trademark policy OR
RHLP needs to have the red hat branding stripped from it so others can
put it on servers/systems they sell w/o having to worry when the lawyers
will come for them.
I'd recommend that all of the red hat log and artwork and other things
that are trademarked be extracted to separate packages(this includes all
of the branding in anaconda) so people like jesse can safely deploy it
on servers they sell w/o the risk of being sued.
-sv