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Red Hat Gives up on Fedora Foundation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tip-of-the-hat dept.

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.'"

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  1. funny, by joe+155 · · Score: 3, Funny

    When I first clicked on this it said "nothing for you to see here, please move along"... I felt a bit like one of the completely marginalised Fedora people now they have a lovely minority and no veto power

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  2. What the hell? by fak3r · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's going on here? With MS releasing Linux drivers for virtualization, Apple releasing code to run XP on Macs, and now Red Hat dropping the community they created it's like April fools all week!

    My head hurts, time to go back to work and ignore all of this (right!)

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  3. Re:First. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    And I really hope he/she meant "harness" instead of "hardness".

  4. I know! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    why are open source proponents turning a blind eye to how Red Hat's actions and nonconducive to the open source ideal?



    Name one.

    They make money off of F/OSS! They're supposed to do everytyhing for free! They're just some corporation with their CEOs sitting in their offices being all corporaty and stuff!

  5. Re:Why not use another more solid OS? by HoosierPeschke · · Score: 2, Funny

    neither, you just posted...

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  6. Re:When redhat dropped the desktop market by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Um-buntu - Linux for hesitant people

  7. Re:Don't be an ass by gowen · · Score: 2, Funny

    The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.

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  8. $DISTRO_FLAMEWAR_HEADLINE by Jesus_666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    $YOUR_DISTRO sucks and no one should use it. $MY_DISTRO is much superior in every regard.

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