Custom Partition Fedora 18

[jonc]

On 02/19/2013 07:01 AM, Gordan Bobic wrote:
>
> And now you touch upon another important issue. This is more of a 
> distro maintenance issue. It is also probably why Ubuntu maintainers 
> pay more attention to such things - because their users are their 
> _customers_. Without those, there's no revenue.

Well, there's something I can agree with.  Ubuntu sells services much 
like Red Hat, and  tries to do deals with hardware OEM's.  So, they have 
paying customers. *That's* the kind of constraining influence on 
developers that does not exist in the free-as-in-beer world of Fedora 
and most everywhere else in FOSS.

Being dependent on customer revenue encumbers developers with the need 
to keep those customers happy.  It limits their freedom.  You wouldn't 
kill Gnome 2 if your income relied on its existence.

Fedora doesn't really need to worry about having happy users as long as 
it has enough users to shake out its software.  Red Hat, though, is a 
business, with stockholders.  They have considerably less freedom to do 
as they please.