On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 17:17 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Hi > > >I could do (and did) that upstream, I could do so (and did) with RHL, > >before Fedora, I could do so with RHEL. > > > >In comparison to RHL, nothing has changed for me, except that I am > >building and shipping packages through the FE build system, instead of > >building them myself. Both situations have/had pros and cons, which > >approximately balance each other. > > > >So, in the end, nothing much has changed "by Fedora having been > >introduced". > > > > > > > Fedora Extras enabled by default makes a huge difference. As I've said many times before, if using pure rpm based installation/updates it doesn't make any difference. > >Well, the question is: Does it need a foundation? > > > > > It is being created ... by RH, not by community ... > because the community wanted assurance that their > work will remain open source, defensible and to serve other stated goals. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundation It's the work-around RH has decided by themselves, because RH found this would be an applicable work-around. The community, so far, has not, or at least, only be negligibly been involved, and not even been informed until last week. Ralf
