[NTLUG:Discuss] Giving Up On FEDORA

[Ted Gould]

On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 10:39 -0600, Greg Edwards wrote:
> Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > On 01/06/2010 08:17 AM, Greg Edwards wrote:
> >> I gave up on RH distributions a long time ago.  I truly appreciate the 
> >> contribution that RH made to the Open Source community in the beginning. 
> > 
> > "In the beginning???"  Who do you think today's #1 contributor to X.org
> > is?  How about the #1 commercial contributor Linux kernel?  And glibc
> > and the associated toolchain (gcc and friends)?  It's Red Hat.  Red Hat
> > does more for Linux and Linux distros than any organization on the
> > planet.  I am constantly blown away at how quick folks are to trash talk
> > Red Hat since they're at the top of the heap.  It just amazes me how
> > folks who are obviously ignorant of the facts spew crap like this.
>
> Calm down.  I don't think that I trashed RH anywhere in my comments.  I 
> have no problems with RH or their goals as an organization.  In their 
> early days RH had allot to do with putting Linux on the map, so to 
> speak, for non techies.

I think that his issue is with your use of "in the beginning."  I think
that RH still has a lot to do with putting Linux on the map per se.
While it's impossible to compare "contributions to Open Source" (I think
at one time Oracle had a metric that put them on top) -- RH continues to
be a major contributor.

Now, the issue I have is that it seems RH is getting a chip on their
shoulder over this.  I wish I could go inside and say "You guys do great
things, be confident in that."  I think that inside RH there is a belief
that other people are getting false credit for their work.  Which isn't
untrue, but it's the same credit they got before they were big enough to
be a major contributor to all the projects they contribute to today.

		--Ted