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Red Hat Lays Groundwork for Fedora Foundation

Posted by Hemos on 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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  1. dupe by professorhojo · · Score: 4, Informative

    seems like a dupe: http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/03/ 1712208&tid=110&tid=106

    1. Re:dupe by pez · · Score: 4, Funny

      Perhaps I'm being overly naiive and/or simplistic, but isn't the "Mysterious future" feature supposed to eliminate dupes? I saw this one coming half an hour ago... certainly someone reported it as a dupe, no?

  2. Time for a new /. slogan! by dark-br · · Score: 4, Funny


    News for the amnesiac. Stuff that mattered.

  3. Re:What is official RH distro then? by ColonelKernel · · 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.

  4. Re:Fresh Dupe by Sturm · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do duplicate stories in some way, shape or form hurt you? Do they cause evil or bad fortune to descend upon you and your family? Do they offend your delicate sense of what is good and just in the universe? Do they cause you to have pimples on your ass?
    If you answered "No" to all the above questions, maybe you should quit your whiny-ass bitching about duplicate stories and contribute something meaninful to another discussion.

  5. Re:Which open source community was that? by tux_deamon · · Score: 4, Informative

    But Red Hat didn't remove their "personal" distro, they just renamed it "Fedora Core". They've provided a fairly robust infrastructure for supporting it.

    And even though the product that pays the bills retains the name "Red Hat", it's as Open Source as any distro you can find. That's why I can download distro's like CentOS and WhiteBox that are exact clones of RHEL developed almost exclusively from the SRPM's released openly by the RHEL project.

    If anyone in the OSS community is annoyed by the reoganization, it's probably because it is a little confusing. But this is it in a nutshell:

    One product is a cutting edge distro for all of us to enjoy using and developing.

    One product is the stable branch of an older version of the community disto that's packaged and sold with support to big corporations who gain from chosing the software.

    There's nothing wrong with selling OSS. Consider RMS:

    "Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or that you should charge as little as possible -- just enough to cover cost.

    Actually, we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can." - Richard Stallman

    Red Hat employs developers who not only use OSS, but contribute a great deal of it back to the community for all of us to enjoy -- even those of us who don't run Red Hat distributions personally. Again, RMS:

    "Red Hat's contributing to the GNU project by hiring people to write on the GNU desktop, Gnome, which is a very useful contribution."