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Red Hat Forms non-Profit Open Source Group

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday November 1, 1999 @04:39AM from the for-the-good-of-the-community dept.

shawnb writes "Wired has an aticle describing Red Hat's new Non-Profit Open Source group. The group's aim is to 'sponsor, support, promote, and engage in a wide range of scientific and educational projects intended to advance the social principles of open source for the greater good of the general public.' "

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Huh? by Evangelion · 1999-11-01 01:19 · Score: 3

Let me understand this - in order to provide *community* focus, for free *liberated* software, we need a corporate sponsored group consisting of representatives from companies (Sun, MS) that have done thier damndest to enslave and bind thier users to thier corporate vision.

Sorry, I think that Debian, FSF and SPI are *much*, *much* better at demonstrating what Open Source is and means to the public than a corporate sponsored think tank would ever be.

How can publically traded corporations really be honest when they try to promote a philosophy of software that is so opposed to thier way of doing buisness?