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Red Hat Gives up on Fedora Foundation
phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica writes up Red Hat's giving up on the Fedora Foundation: 'In an open letter distributed to the Fedora community earlier this week, Red Hat employee and Fedora project leader Max Spevack states that Red Hat is no longer interested in establishing an autonomous, nonprofit foundation to manage the Fedora project. Instead, Red Hat will revive the Fedora Project Board, which will include five Red Hat representatives, four members of the Fedora community, and a chairman appointed by Red Hat who will possess veto power.'"
RedHat is still relevant, but IMO if you are willing to use Fedora, you are a sucker of the highest order, and if you are willing to use RedHat in your commercial environment, you are a right bastard. I will proceed to explain: I feel that RedHat broke their covenant with the Linux community when they eliminated the free as in beer stable distribution. RedHat sees the Linux community as nothing but advertising and free QA.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
the quality had gone down hill since fedora core 3 . the community of debian and all her off spring will fill the void . i think Linux needs to exist in different forms . They were getting overambitious with the project .
They use RHEL at work - I found a samba bug that had been patched in 3.0.21c we need patched on our servers. Management wouldn't let anything in that didn't come down from RHN.
Went to RHN and opened many many cases over the next month - trying to get one of the incompetent indian fucks to let engineering know that their 3.0.9 samba version they still have deployed now needed patched to fix this bug that was causing crashes on all of our rhel 3 servers.
It took a month - and multiple opened cases - before one of the indians assigned a ticket actually read what was in it and passed it to the engineering team to fix. All the other idiots just pasted cut and paste repsonses that had nothing to do with the problem I was pointing out - and handing them a patch for.
Finally - I got a patch samba version from them. Attached to the case. Still haven't seen it come down the subscribed update channels - so no one else is getting it.
I decided that Fedora has gone beyond bloated and sucky, and that if I were to ever prefessionally recommend any Linux flavors..
You may not fully comprehend the connotations associated with the term professional (at least when used in reference to making business decisions involving Linux). In a professional environment, you'd have a difficult time justifying your decisions using criteria such as 'bloated' and 'sucky'.
Don't you have someone you'd die for?