The way I see it is this. Despite much misinformation floating around, RedHat has always been a great member of the community. RedHat is also getting pretty business savvy. They are also more concerned about the reputation of their trademark than any other pure play Linux company I can think of. It is in their best interest to see that Fedora gets prompt security updates. Fedora is called a project not a product, but it is psychologically and in a very real way, very closely bound to the RedHat name. So if Fedora comes to be mentioned in the news as having significant security problems, that will reflect on the RedHat name as well. Right or wrong. More generally, RedHat's success in the enterprise is riding to a significant extent upon the security reputation of Linux in general. If DoorKnob Linux releases an insecure distro and gets negative press for it, it hurts RedHat. RedHat is also far from perfect. They've made plenty of mistakes. But for the most part those mistakes get corrected (eventually). I'm not saying yea or nay as to whether I think that there is a problem to correct in this case. But I think RedHat understands that if a rising tide lifts all boats, then a falling tide lowers them. -Steve
