Defining the Fedora Project

These things show up when an organization grows past a certain size.. mainly because the Venn diagram of common items becomes too complicated for the human mind to see "whats most in common (all the circles)" and "whats somewhat in common (some of the circles)".

I think many people would say we are once again re-inventing the history of Debian :). There was a certain point in its history where the major discussion was not what the next release was but "What does Debian Free mean" and "Why do we need a debian-legal?" At that point the various statements became more firmed up.

But to better answer your question: http://xkcd.com/592/