Fedora 12: a conversation with Paul Frields

This is super funny and ironic and proves the point of NIH, duplication of effort, and everything OSS is supposed to avoid.
Fedora is coming up, almost 10 years later, with Debian's system of stable, testing, unstable.

Of course, it's easy to criticize, and I know that there are other reasons for this, like different agendas, different goals, people not getting along well, but the base idea should be noted.

And I do realize that they're not using exactly Debian's system, but it's darn close. And it's just their first iteration, so they're allowed to make mistakes and learn :)