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Red Hat Lays Groundwork for Fedora Foundation

Posted by Hemos on Monday June 6, 2005 @03:30AM from the divesting-control dept.

rob writes " Computer Business Review is reporting that Red Hat has announced plans to hand over control of its Fedora community-led Linux development project to the new Fedora Foundation as part of a new three-pronged intellectual property strategy. "

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Re:What is official RH distro then? by ColonelKernel · 2005-06-06 03:40 · Score: 5, Informative

Fedora, since its inception, was its own distribution. Redhat created Fedora to help mantain a free (as in beer) distribution based on Redhat. The official Redhat distribution will be as it has since the beginning of the Fedora project. The Redhat branded products, such as AS, ES, and WS will be the Redhat official releases. What Redhat in effect is doing is creating a division between Redhat and the Fedora project much like the division between Redhat and SuSE.