On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 12:34:13PM -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > What's the point of funding Fedora if only 50 people use it? Actually, even if only 50 people used Fedora it'd probably be worth it to RedHat. (Not that I think the number would ever go so low.) First, the platform is useful to RH just from the point of view of integration and testing--development on Fedora isn't just lost to the end user. This is the testbed for the next generation of features that go into RHE. Secondly, even if only a relatively small pool of people used Fedora, RH would still get input from them on problems and opinions. No matter how small the pool could get, it's larger than the test groups at RH. Finally, it's still a PR win for RH. As long as they provide support for Fedora, they're still members of the Open Source community and effort, and not just another SCO-in-the-making. -- Dave Ihnat President, DMINET Consulting, Inc. dihnat@xxxxxxxxxx
