The original Fedora research team at Cornell put out software in the year 2000. This was the first reference implementation and was freely available. Evidence of this original distribution can be found in the Internet Archive at:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000819130403/www.cs.c ornell.edu/cdlrg/FEDORA.html
The current Cornell/Virginia team re-developed Fedora to be XML-based and web-services compliant. This is the new software that was released in May 2003.
We have not been under a rock. On the contrary, we have tried to take a diplomatic approach with Red Hat through a series of informal and formal calls, emails, and letters to express our concerns. Since Red Hat has not changed it's position, we decided to make the open source community aware of our views on the matter.
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The original Fedora research team at Cornell put out software in the year 2000. This was the first reference implementation and was freely available. Evidence of this original distribution can be found in the Internet Archive at: http://web.archive.org/web/20000819130403/www.cs.c ornell.edu/cdlrg/FEDORA.html
The current Cornell/Virginia team re-developed Fedora to be XML-based and web-services compliant. This is the new software that was released in May 2003.
We have not been under a rock. On the contrary, we have tried to take a diplomatic approach with Red Hat through a series of informal and formal calls, emails, and letters to express our concerns. Since Red Hat has not changed it's position, we decided to make the open source community aware of our views on the matter.