Associating the Red Hat and Fedora brands?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Apr 1 14:55:23 UTC 2008


Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Francesco Ugolini wrote:
> 
>>> > i will quote GregdeKoenigsberg:
>>> >
>>> > "The Fedora brand must evolve separately from Red Hat's brand. 
>>> Fedora is very
>>> > important to Red Hat, but Fedora is not Red Hat. It's really 
>>> crucial to
>>> > understand that distinction."
>>> >
>>> > so -1 again.
>>>
>>>  +1 to Joerg, and -1 to co-branding.
> 
> OK, then, let me propose something different and a bit less intrusive: 
> maybe we could put a "corporate sponsorship" slide into the Anaconda 
> install flow?  "Thanks to our corporate sponsors".  With a big 
> Shadowman, and then smaller logos from lots of other companies.  Since 
> it would just be a single slide, we could make it as NASCAR-y as we wanted.

If you are going to say thanks and you got space, thank the community 
too. Even Red Hat Linux Anaconda did that and so did the RHEL 5 promo.

Rahul




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