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The Fedora-Red Hat Crisis

Posted by Soulskill on from the evidently-it-doesn't-start-at-the-top dept.

jammag writes "When Linux journalist Bruce Byfield tried to dig for details about the security breach in Fedora's servers, a Red Hat publicist told him the official statement — written in non-informative corporate-speak — was all he would get. In the wake of Red Hat's tight-lipped handling of the breach, even Fedora's board was unhappy, as Byfield details. He concludes: 'If Red Hat, one of the epitomes of a successful FOSS-based business, can ignore FOSS when to do so is corporately convenient, then what chance do we have that other companies — especially publicly-traded ones — will act any better?'"

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  1. Re:Consider Red Hat's response vs. Debian's by the_B0fh · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Wow. You should be working in the elections - why debate the issues when you dismiss a person.

    Even better - redhat might suck, but all the other companies suck even more, so it's still ok...

    I have just lost a little more hope in this world.