@gamingonlinux they don't contradict to me if taken in the context of the whole blog post.
The first is referring to simply repackaging and rebranding a project then presenting it as your own. In other words what all this fuss is about.
The second refers to the relationship between RedHat and Fedora, or Ubuntu and Debian. Building on, improving and contributing back.
@fossrob but if the code is open source and the licensing allows it, repackaging and reusing is all in the entire spirit of open source
Creating a fight between upstreamd and downstreams is not going to help anyone.