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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. From the open letter: -------------------------- WHY NO FOUNDATION? When we announced the Foundation, it was with a very specific purpose, and in a very specific context. The announcement was made by Mark Webbink, who has been the intellectual property guru at Red Hat for a long time now. His stated goal for the Foundation: to act as a repository for patents that would protect the interests of the open source community. .... What we weren't counting on was the rapid progress of the Open Invention Network (http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/press.html), which serves a similar purpose for businesses in a much more compelling way. Without going into too much detail, it became clear to us that OIN is going to be the 800-pound gorilla in the patent commons space, and we were eager to join forces. -------------------------- So the primary motivator in "giving up" on the Foundation is that the "Foundation's" main purpose was being filled by a broader effort. Matt
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