All, I am looking at using Fedora at my work and some people are asking the following questions or have the following concerns that I did not know how to answer: 1. Why is fedora free and why would people work on it for free? 2. Some people are concerned that since Fedora is open source that they don't know where the software comes from so they can't trust it. How can they trust it? 3. How are updates to Fedora vetted and accepted? 4. Does Redhat have any involvement with Fedora? 5. Does Redhat use the same processes in "controlling" fedora quality and releases as it did the free versions of Redhat? 6. Ostensibly Redhat offered free versions of Redhat Linux because they could make a profit on support. Now Redhat has built a market and Redhat is no longer free. What is the profit motivation of the Fedora group and persons/orgs who make software contributions to it? (By the way, there is nothing wrong with profit.) Thanks, Roger
