A tip of the hat to the end of a distro as we know it.

[david at thekramers.net]

> David Kramer wrote:
>> Red Hat gives up on Fedora Foundation
>> 4/6/2006 10:16:57 AM, by Ryan Paul
>> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060406-6535.html
>>
>> "In an  open letter distributed to the Fedora community earlier this
>> week, Red Hat employee and Fedora project leader Max Spevack states that
>> Red Hat is no longer interested in establishing an autonomous, nonprofit
>> foundation to manage the Fedora project. Instead, Red Hat will revive
>> the Fedora Project Board, which will include five Red Hat
>> representatives, four members of the Fedora community, and a chairman
>> appointed by Red Hat who will possess veto power. Dominated by Red Hat,
>> the Fedora Project Board will now have complete authority over the
>> Fedora project, including budgetary control."
>
> I'm not sure what you were implying.  Fedora is not going away.  The
> "Foundation" is.

Correct.  That's where the "as we know it" part comes in.

Certainly there will be big changes in direction, and Fedora turns back
into a proving ground and farm team for commercial Red Hat.