Good one Jonathan, thumps up ...
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 6:45 AM, Jonathan Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK all, firstly, I'd like to say I'm slightly embarrassed - I always > like to think that I'm polite and positive in what I say and certainly > on this occasion that's not been the case! So, yeah, firstly apologies > for what I said previously... like people said, the points were valid > but the tone certainly wasn't. > > Secondly, whether or not this gets used (I'm uncertain of the > preferred direction following the comments so far in this thread), > here is a re-worked version - as always more comments and feedback is > welcome :) > > ------------- > > Hi there, > > I was just sending a quick note to you as I was slightly disappointed > when I read your article. Mostly, I just wanted to let you know that > the Fedora Project isn't a development release for Red Hat Enterprise > Linux, but rather a mature and stable distribution in it's own right, > which aims to promote the latest and greatest in free and open source > software. > > One of our proudest points as a community of contributors is that we > help drive innovation in free and open source software by ensuring all > the exciting work we do each release is quickly fed upstream, allowing > all to benefit from it. It's because of this that a lot of our code > ends up in RHEL, and also in the majority of the major distributions > such as Ubuntu, Debian and oepnSUSE. > > Another point that we take significant pride in is that the majority > of the packages that make up the distribution (over 60%) are > maintained by non-Red Hat members. Interestingly, it's been recently > decided that the governance of Fedora would change from there being a > majority of people on the board appointed by Red Hat, to a majority of > people being elected by the community. > > I hope these points might be of interest to you, and would love to > invite you to start a dialogue with the project so that in the future > we can work together to make your life a little easier :) Feel free to > send an e-mail to press AT fedoraproject DOT org anytime, and > someone will be more than happy to help. > > Best wishes, > > ---------------- > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list >
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