[In the news] Fedora and GNOME branding drama: Missing the big picture

Ricky Zhou ricky at fedoraproject.org
Fri Apr 22 16:57:30 UTC 2011


On 2011-04-22 12:52:25 PM, Jared K. Smith wrote:
> To portray this as "Red Hat told Fedora they had to use such-and-such
> a wallpaper" is not only incorrect, it's also unfair both to the
> Fedora Design Team and the Gnome developers, as it paints both groups
> in the worst possible light.  (Why free software/open source
> enthusiasts always tend to assume the worst in others is a much
> broader topic for another day.)
Not to mention that there were Red Hat people (as well as non-Red Hat
people) on both sides of discussion in this case.  This decision
and discussion happened between individual people, not between a company
and a Fedora team.

Thanks,
Ricky
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