[NTLUG:Discuss] @#$%^&*! redhat up2date!!!!!

[Cameron, Thomas]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin M. Forbes [mailto:64bit_fedora at comcast.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:10 PM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] @#$%^&*! redhat up2date!!!!!
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 11:11:12AM -0600, Chris Cox wrote:
> 
> Good post Chris. 
> > 
> > It's somewhat unclear whether or not Red Hat
> > employees during "work hours" are allowed to
> > work on Fedora... but it seems very likely.
> 
> Actually there is a fine line here.  It seems (and I have not 
> been told
> with authority) that Red Hat employees have a responsibility 
> to work on
> Fedora Core in the same areas that they work on other RH bits.  For
> example, Dave Jones has responsibility to work on the Fedora 
> Kernel during
> "work hours" for i386 (and AMD64 with FC2).  If he wanted to 
> work on say
> PPC64 or IA64 though, he would have to do it on his own time 
> unless he had
> nothing else to do, but when would that happen?  That is things as I
> understand them anyway.  For core though, it is clear they 
> are not only
> allowed, but responsible for working on their components.  This is a
> requirement for timely updates.
> 
> Justin

Don't forget that many of the enhancements that the RH guys ostensibly create for RHEL will wind up in Fedora just because once the "heavy lifting" is done, the GPL stuff can be added to Fedora easily.  Everybody wins.

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Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Assistant Vice President
Linux Design and Engineering
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