-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 17:59 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Creating an alternitive install CD for CentOS 5.2 (w/ patched mkinitrd)
R P Herrold wrote:
Here is the fallout: The poor end user 'knows' it was
CentOS, because
she was told by the respinner that it is 'CentOS with just
one package
replaced'. Who gets the black eye here? Who bears the support load of sorting out what happened
when the poor
hurt user shows up in what she thinks is the correct support venue, barely able to describe her VOIP turnkey box's operation?
The answer is, of course, the main mother-ship CentOS project folks.
And it is not right that people do this to us, but it is
also hard to
stop. Probably the only real solution is to enforce the CentOS trademark on the art and brand packages, and prohibit respins containing such (just as the upstream does).
Sad, but true.
There is a reason the core CentOS group are skittish about
respins.
We'll have to discuss this seriously.
I can see your point about the brand value you have embedded into the packages, but it also seems wrong to make everyone who wants to improve it or adapt to some additional purpose repeat all the rebranding work from scratch.
How hard would it be to generate an 'unbranded' drop in replacement package for everything specifically Centos - or a framework so others could share the work? That way everyone who needed to replace a driver wouldn't have to repeat all this work unless they wanted to create their own unique brand identity.
Kinky idea, I like it.
If you think respins containing Centos branding are wrong, make it easy to to the right thing.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
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