Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

I came across this article and as a Fedora user at home and work, I think this is important to know.

A few weeks ago, there was a discussion about Ubuntu on this list and I feel that this is part of that discussion.

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The Biggest Blunder: Or why Red Hat and Novell just left the door wide open to Ubuntu
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/102011/index.html

In recent announcements both Red Hat and Novell made it pretty clear that their foray onto the desktop would be delayed quite a bit longer. What they do not know is that they just left the door wide open for Ubuntu to conquer the desktop and the server space.
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Basically, both Novell and RedHat are backing away from pushing Linux to the desktop. But Ubuntu is not backing away.

As a Fedora user, I see this as an issue. At home I need games and the applications that my family use. To date I have not had issues with Fedora up to 7. When I updated my machines at home, there were applications that I couldn't get for F8 so I installed F7. I have not checked to see if these are available for F8 at present. But they were available for the latest release of Ubuntu.

I am interested in others views on this.

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Robin Laing

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