[fab] fedora slashdot interview

[David Barzilay]

That was a pretty good summary, Rahul.

Although you "doubt any question would be phrased that way", I believe 
we should be ready for it.

Just my 0,02!

Rahul wrote:
> David Barzilay wrote:
>> Nice move, Max.
>>
>> We can never stop online hoaxes or misinformed articles, so I also 
>> believe we should always opt for the clarifying method.
>>
>> People speculate a bunch, we explain whassup, then judgement is up to 
>> the readers ;)
>>
>> Now my question: do you intend to go against the assumption that Red 
>> Hat "neglected its Fedora desktop users"?
>
> Better to wait for the questions to be asked before speculating. I 
> doubt any question would be phrased that way. Fedora is not even in 
> the picture when Red Hat supposedly abandoned the desktop since people 
> equated the retail model with desktop usage and Fedora is not a retail 
> commercially supported product.
>
> Having said that, the number of new efforts that Red Hat or people in 
> Red Hat has created (and continue to work on) around the desktop 
> (freedesktop.org, hal, dbus, Network Manager, GTK, Large amount of 
> GNOME etc is good enough a proof that Red Hat is willing to invest 
> very heavily in the desktop.
>
> There is a question of better integration in existing products that 
> goes beyond Red Hat's upstream project involvement though. Random 
> examples of this are Network Manager being shipped enabled by default 
> in various other distributions while Fedora does not. Dogtail just got 
> into Fedora development tree yesterday. Sabayon is in Fedora Extras 
> still.
>
> Red Hat's launch of purely desktop (and laptop) focused commercial 
> products if any is ever done depend on solid business value. We will 
> get to that point soon I hope.
>
> Rahul
>
>
>
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