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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. Re:Question for Red Hat guys by LWATCDR · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "I'd like to ask the Linux community, is Red Hat still relevant?"

    Yes.
    Red Hat is actually making money from Linux. Why is that relevant? Because they are PAYING people to enhance Linux.
    The have spent large sums of money on GCC, Gnome, X.org, and Xen.
    Look at the things they have written and maintain and or contributed to.
    cairo
    glib
    gtk+
    dbus
    LVM2
    ext3
    gfs and gfs2
    JFFS2
    SELinux

    RedHat has made money from OSS and has put money back into OSS. They are not my distro of choice but they have become one of the business friendly faces that the Suits can trust while at the same time giving back to the OSS community.
    Gentoo is more cooler. Ubuntu is the doing well on the desktop but RedHat and Novell/SuSE are the big business Linux leaders.

    --
    See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
  2. As a *BSD'er all I can say is ... by cjjjer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    .... Netcraft confirms Fedora is dying