The Fedora-Red Hat Crisis 263
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?'"
Re:Consider Red Hat's response vs. Debian's (Score:1, Funny)
/. needs a +1 Bruce Perens option
Re:Affecting me to effect change has a good effect (Score:2, Funny)
Disregard that. OP has it right. I suck cock and need grammar lessons.
Re:Consider Red Hat's response vs. Debian's (Score:1, Funny)
Why not just give him a +5 karma bonus on every post?
I also recommend adding a large red border to every post, and banner image containing the text: 'OMG! It's Bruce Perens!' flashing like a Las Vegas slot machine.
Re:Semantic games (Score:4, Funny)
"If you're running GPL software, and someone hacks your system, you must make all details of the hack known"?
Sure you must, under the GPL even a hack would count as a derivative work, so the hackers have to make the source available, wouldn't they? ;-P
Re:Consider Red Hat's response vs. Debian's (Score:4, Funny)
Collective anxiety on Slashdot is unbearable. We sure hope that the info will be available soon, so we can find out what your final decision is. No doubt, Red Hat feels the same.
Hat shortage? (Score:4, Funny)
I initially read the article title as The Fedora Hat Crisis. I was wondering if there was a hat shortage brought about by FOSS people wanting to Cosplay. I now realise my error but have this mental imagine of people walking into a Linux conference all bedecked in red Fedoras.