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I think the [Fedora project documentation](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/#_first) covers this in the "First" section (emphasis mine):


> **First**
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> We are committed to innovation.
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> We are not content to let others do all the heavy lifting on our behalf; we provide the latest in stable and robust, useful, and powerful free software in our Fedora distribution.
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> At any point in time, **the latest Fedora platform shows the future direction of the operating system** as it is experienced by everyone from the home desktop user to the enterprise business customer. Our rapid release cycle is a major enabling factor in our ability to innovate.
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> We recognize that there is also a place for long-term stability in the Linux ecosystem, and that there are a variety of community-oriented and business-oriented Linux distributions available to serve that need. However, **the Fedora Project’s goal of advancing free software dictates that the Fedora Project itself pursue a strategy that preserves the forward momentum of our technical, collateral, and community-building progress. Fedora always aims to provide the future, first.**

So being the first is indeed one of the stated objectives of the Fedora project.