Where are we going? (Not a rant)

[Rahul Sundaram]

On 12/10/2012 05:39 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> Which is why I think it would be in every ones best interest if all 
> the RHEL clones ( even oracle ) would unite join our community 
> maintain and support Fedora LTS release instead risk being bitten by 
> any business decision Red Hat either willingly or be forced to make.

Community rebuilds of EL or Oracle don't have any interest in Fedora as 
such.  They are interested in a product that provides binary 
compatibility with EL and Fedora LTS won't do that and if your goal is 
to protect yourself from Red Hat decisions entirely, using the Fedora 
brand isn't the ideal choice.  More to the point, EL rebuilds are 
directly affected by whatever changes Red Hat does in EL and as long as 
they want to retain compatibility, they cannot isolate themselves from 
it and if they do, lose compatibility, the lose the raison d'etre.  You 
can build a Fedora LTS which merely extends Fedora release by a few 
months or a couple of years with no goal of retaining EL compatibility 
and in that case,  the community around EL rebuilds won't participate in 
it.

Rahul