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[Dave Neary]

Hi Alon,

On 01/10/2013 04:07 PM, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> Just to clarify some terms.... as I got some feedback of confusion.
>
> oVirt is an UPSTREAM project, it is the source origin (manufacturer).
>
> Fedora is a DOWNSTREAM to oVirt, it is a distribution that provides the oVirt product.

My understanding is that Fedora is very much an upstream of oVirt Node, 
in that it provides a component of what becomes oVirt Node.

I would not call the OS downstream in general... downstream is "code 
flows there from somewhere else" - commercially sold products and 
services around integrated/patched/nicely packages open source code. 
Whereas distributions are aggregations of components. They're delivery 
mechanisms. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a downstream of Fedora, and an 
upstream for CentOS in some sense, but I don't think it's a downstream 
of (say) MySQL. It's just a delivery channel.

Cheers,
Dave.


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