[TriLUG] No More Consumer Red Hat?

[Ed Hill]

On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 13:43, David R.Matusiak wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 12:27  PM, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> 
> > This was announced several months ago; see http://fedora.redhat.com/.
> > The name change was mostly so that the "Fedora" trademark could have
> > different rules than the "Red Hat" trademark.  It's still the same 
> > thing
> > as the "Red Hat Linux Project" that was initially announced, but you're
> > right, it won't be a boxed product like the previous Red Hat Linux.
> 
> Is this a Good Idea(tm)?  Does the user community support this change?
> Any TriLUGger comments?
> thanks!
> dave m.


Hi Dave,

Not to dissuade discussion within TriLUG, but this topic has been
covered in some detail on a number of lists including those at:

  http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/communicate/

Perhaps the best threads are the "Announcing New Direction" and "What
price do you want?" discussions archived at:

  http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-September/thread.html

hth,
Ed

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