Fedora is drafting a new mission statement. The new initial proposal:
Fedora creates an innovative platform that lights up hardware, clouds, and containers for software developers and community members to build tailored solutions for their users.
The original goal was:
to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from open source software.
Is saying open, or free, openly (excuse the pun) becoming something to be ashamed of? Are project ditching their ideals? Fedora barely mentioned free (or Free, to be more clear), but now it's even more vague. It's like if had to be reminded over and over to those in charge, as the triggered thread demostrates.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @12:06PM (2 children)
This is probably one guy who's trying to be an intern at Microsoft showing off how much he "gets it" and all that crap, even though he very clearly doesn't and conveniently ignores much of the argument in favor of his two-sentence narrative. I don't think he's going to convince anyone of anything other than perhaps that he's a douchebag.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @05:39PM (1 child)
Try for bitter free software developer who has large projects out there under the GPL. Try software developer who has seen absolutely no benefit in contributing to free software for decades. Try disillusioned member of your free software movement who has learned to hate everything about your evangelical movement. But you wouldn't understand because for stupid shit like you, this is a tribalism issue, and your tribe is always right. There's no possibility of convincing you of anything because you're fucking brainwashed.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @05:59PM
Plenty of people are getting paid to write free software. Your social skills might have something to do with why your life is a wreck. Have you been divorced too? Paying alimony right now? Gonna blame that on free software?