arstechnica.com: "Red Hat gives up on Fedora Foundation"

[Andrew Zajac]

On 4/6/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Red Hat gives up on Fedora Foundation"
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060406-6535.html



Great article.

"Dominated by Red Hat, the Fedora Project Board will now have complete
authority over the Fedora project, including budgetary control. "

There is no Cabal.

There is not really the same comparison between software vendors like Red
Hat or Suse and Ubuntu/Canonical.  Canonical want to make money from
launchpad, not Ubuntu.  Red Hat and Novel want to make money from their
distributions.

That's an important distinction since it better defines what is "the
product."  It distiguishes between the software and the services and
support.

I beleive the plan for Ubuntu was to seed the community council with
Canonical employees to establish the community and then offload those tasks
to non-Canonical employees.  I have not heard otherwise, so I guess we are
still on that track.

It's looking like Ubuntu will be the only major linux distribution with
truly community-centric governance.  Since you don't have to be intimately
linked to a specific corporate entity to benefit from their contribution to
the project, you can get the best of both worlds.  Likewise, users don't
feel like they have to pay for free software.

My guess it that will really work out well for everyone.  I hope.

azz
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