Co-branding?

[Diaa Radwan]

On 03/26/2008 03:20 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was talking recently to a couple of friends who aren't in the software 
> industry and it came out in our recent discussions that both the 
> companies they are working for is using Fedora on their systems. They 
> remarked that they had no idea that Red Hat was involved in Fedora.
> 
> I still meet people in various places who think Red Hat has stopped 
> working on a free distribution after Red Hat Linux 9 and continue to use 
> it or worse a earlier version.
> 
> I just looked within Fedora to see if there was any hint and couldn't 
> really find any prominent ones. The note on http://fedoraproject.org is 
> also easily missed. Is this a deliberate decision? Should there be some 
> of co-branding within the distribution and a prominent hint in other 
> places?
> 
> Something like Fedora - Powered by Red Hat/ Sponsored by Red Hat or some 
> such.

I think this will bring us back 2 years. One of the major advantage 
given by Red hat; is we got transparent build process; all tools used is 
GPL'ed, all these efforts are done to invite and welcome contributers, I 
think co-branding will do exact the opposite.

> 
> Rahul
> 


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