Now, what was really intended by that statement that you quoted above (and I acknowledge I'm putting words in people's mouths a bit) is that Red Hat *may* flex its muscles a bit if the community were to do something extremely unlikely that would be in direct opposition to the needs of Red Hat. And when I say "extreme", I'm talking in the neighborhood of "Fedora should drop the ix86 line and focus only on embedded ARM" or "Fedora should give up producing an OS entirely and become a package repository for CentOS". You are absolutely *not* going to see Red Hat micromanaging the creation of a Fedora-to-Red-Hat-specification because that would actively *degrade* the value of Fedora to Red Hat. Fedora is not just a testbed for RHEL, it's a proving ground for technologies, and those may eventually get included RHEL *from any source*, not just Red Hat.