Fedora Users — Wanna give me a hand debunking this?

Although I imagine people don't want to spend too much time feeding thetrolls, I want to at least be able to post something showing that I wastrying to do the right thing before I write this off as a stupid trollargument. So someone want to point me in the direction of some evidenceshowing how much of a lie this is?

"“My guess is that Novell tries to elevate levels of participation inOpenSUSE because that’s the distribution Novell feeds on. It hopes thatit can hide in the fog while others do all the labour.”

This describes exactly what Red Hat does with Fedora. Not that it was abad thing, as everybody working on or using Fedora is conscious ofusinga bleeding-edge distro.

So, to explain in more detail: Fedora was meant to help the developmentof Red Hat’s codebase with the help of the community. Red Hat usesFedora (good as it may be) purely as a test-bed, where they can try outnew technologies that could prove to be too unstable for RHEL withoutany risk. Fixes from RHEL don’t go upstream to Fedora because thecodecase it too different. Not because of evil intent from Red Hat’sside but just because the enterprise-distro and thebleeding-edge-testing distro are too far apart.

The only part that is really negative about Fedora is that somethingdoesn’t happen before a release that happens before openSUSE-releases: Adecided corporate effort at bug-squashing. It doesn’t happen because RedHat cannot afford to put its complete ressources at de-bugging code thatthey won’t use for their commercial product anytime soon (while forNovell it makes sense because openSUSE’s code goes back into SLED, soon).

The result is that Fedora is a fine distro but a bit rough around theedges."