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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. Red Hat... by JordanL · · Score: 0, Troll

    A lot of people support red hat on the principal that they are trying to get the world to adopt something which is open at its core... why are open source proponents turning a blind eye to how Red Hat's actions and nonconducive to the open source ideal?

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  2. First. by Avillia · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have no doubt that there will be numerous unhappy people that Red Hat is going to keep a hardness on the Fedora project. Perhaps other community members will express interest in setting up the foundation: It's a good idea to have a open source project not intended to be incorporated into Red Hat not being governed by Red Hat.

    Who knows, they could be the next M$!

    Let the flaming commense.

  3. Question for Red Hat guys by Monkelectric · · Score: 0, Troll
    I was involved in the formation of Linux distribution -- long ago ... So I know the teritory...

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

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  4. Why not use another more solid OS? by virtualmyles · · Score: 0, Troll

    There are FAR better *nix based OSes out there that aren't nearly as troublesome as the redhate/fagora project. If you want uber simplicity, why not use FreeBSD? Need a webserver up and running in 20 minutes- how about OpenBSD?

  5. Re:Fedora will never be a production OS by grasshoppa · · Score: 0, Troll

    Fedora will never be a fully functional production OS, for it's in the conflict with Red Hat's ability to sell its "enterprise" products.

    Good point.

    For people who need a stable, secure, easy to maintain OS to run their production systems I would recommend Debian.

    That's great, but what if you want something usable? Debian's packages are so old that it's mostly irrelevant in situations where you need to interoperate with any windows technology.

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  6. When redhat dropped the desktop market by codepunk · · Score: 0, Troll

    When they dropped the desktop marked they already signed their death wish. Everybody I know is running umbuntu and for the servers that own redhat enterprise is going to be removed and loaded with umbuntu. It doesn't take long to despise RPM files after running APT.

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  7. Par for the course... by PenguinBoyDave · · Score: 0, Troll

    Red Hat has done it again. The fact is, this is TWICE they have said "piss-off" to the Open Source community. They need to make money, and Fedora brings them ZERO revenue. Frankly, until someone buys Red Hat (as Novell did SuSE) that has some real cash behind them, I wouldn't look for anything free from Red Hat. It just isn't good economics, and all the Fedora users in the world are not going to keep the lights on...only paying customers of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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    1. Re:Par for the course... by PenguinBoyDave · · Score: 0, Troll

      Actually, I did read the entire thread. It is you who appears to have not read my posting.

      I know they didn't discontinue Fedora, but they have no interest in supporting it other than to have a board. The Foundation was a good thing because it allowed $$ to be covered under the not for profit category, and development could continue. That isn't going to happen any more.

      It's just a continuation of dumpping support for Red Hat 8 and Red Hat 9. Think I'm wrong...that's fine. I work for a company that is a significant Red Hat partner and it is crystal clear where they are going...and Fedora isn't a big part of that roadmap.

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    2. Re:Par for the course... by PenguinBoyDave · · Score: 0, Troll

      OK...that's good information. I take back my posting. Thanks for the correction.

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  8. Typical by kimvette · · Score: 0, Troll

    So let me get this straight:
      They were going to spin off Fedora and let it grow based on its technical merits, and actually come out with *gasp* stable versions like the OpenSuSE project and attract more developers. . . and now they want to kill off any progress they might have made?

    Typical Redhat thinking. This reminds me of their being the dominant desktop distribution and then they cut the cord on the desktop product.

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