> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at 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 at gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00.