Redhat Spins Off Fedora Project 300
Blahbooboo3 writes "In a bid to attract a larger following among developers, Red Hat has spun off its Fedora open source project into a more independent foundation. As part of the transition, the Fedora open source project will transfer development work and copyright ownership of contributed code to the foundation but Red Hat will continue to provide substantial financial and engineering support." From the article: "The proposed patents common, which mimics the Creative Commons licensing scheme for creative works including art and music, is designed to enable developers to exchange ideas with fewer concerns about patent infringement. and Red Hat's efforts to lobby for patent reform in the U.S. and Europe."
Re:As of yet... (Score:3, Informative)
At the Red Hat Summit, Mark Webbink, Deputy General Counsel at Red Hat, is expected to announce the creation of the Fedora Foundation and the Software Patent Commons.
That is why there isn't anything on the websites yet, it hasn't been "officially" announced.
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CRN [crn.com], GeekCoffee [geekcoffee.net], Business Wire [businesswire.com], and eWeek [eweek.com]
Re:Change of Direction (Score:2, Informative)
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Steve
Re:umbilical (Score:2, Informative)
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Steve
Re:Reaction to Ubuntu success? (Score:3, Informative)
Also, I read an interview somewhere with the very rich guy who sponsors the whole thing where he said that he hopes he can eventually make money of it this way, but if not, he doesn't mind spending some of his money for a good cause. Apparently he's from South Africa(?), and feels that the world, especially the poorer part, needs a cheap, open and reliable alternative. This is the same guy who had enough money to buy himself a spacetrip, so I guess he can afford it.
Sorry, I'm not sure on the exact details, but I'm sure that interview can be found on google if you want to.
Re:what about KDE? (Score:3, Informative)
Get it, now?
Re:Fedora Legacy (Score:3, Informative)
And it's inaccurate to claim that RH will be out of the picture.
Re:Ubuntu ? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Tin Foil Hat, not Red Hat. (Score:3, Informative)
> Enterprise version of Linux into closed source, proprietary software,
> in the same style as most of the UNIX OSes out there.
Common conspiracy theory, but almost certainly wrong. Where do you think they GET their Enterprise distro? Fedora. RHEL4 is basically FC3 cleaned up and polished a bit more. They know they lack the resources to fully test enterprise software inhouse so they depend on Fedora for wide testing of all new technology. See SELinux, udev, heck even the 2.6 kernel.
Currently RH does ship some closed components, such as a JDK, Acrobat, Flash, etc. But they do it on a totally seperate CD-ROM called Extras. As far as I know they don't own the rights to a single line of code that isn't currently Free or in the process of becoming free (some parts of their new directory server aren't yet Free Software but is scheduled to become so) so it would be crossing a bright red line if they ever produced a closed package.
If you don't believe me, go to ftp.redhat.com and download the entire source for RHEL and look at the license tags on the packages. 100% OSS/FS product and likely to remain that way. RH 'gets it' on the value of Open so they aren't likely to do something as suicidal as what you are afraid of.
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Re:Ubuntu ? (Score:2, Informative)
Regards,
Steve