How many Fedora users are there?

How many Fedora users are there?

Posted Oct 12, 2006 9:50 UTC (Thu) by davej (subscriber, #354)
In reply to: How many Fedora users are there? by k8to
Parent article: How many Fedora users are there?

I think Seth summed it up much better than I could. I don't deny that in some peoples eyes things don't look quite so rosy, but we've come a long way over the last few years, and overcome a lot of obstacles (Some of which admittedly took way too long).

Comparing the Fedora project of 2003, which was still very closely Red Hat controlled to what we have today is worlds apart. (And we still have a long way to go). The fact that the discussions that prompted this article are even happening publically is testament to that.

We got criticised (rightly) for making decisions behind closed doors, and now we're getting criticised for doing our dirty laundry in public. Yes, sometimes some really bad ideas come up, and the phone-home idea perhaps wasn't as thought through as it should have been, but the point is: It was aired to the community, to get feedback before being implemented. Who says we aren't listening?

Regardless of what we (Red Hat, or the Fedora project) do, we aren't going to please everyone, and in many cases, we shouldn't try to. If a vocal minority had their way, Fedora would be shipping enablers for binary kernel modules, and other proprietary garbage by now.

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