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Fedora Changing its Project Mission

posted by on Wednesday April 19 2017, @07:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the Free-as-in-TANSTAAFL dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 2) by epitaxial on Wednesday April 19 2017, @12:52PM (3 children)

    by epitaxial (3165) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @12:52PM (#496264)

    Speaking of Redhat. How do you sell Linux and license it? If you bought Redhat in the past it entitled you to support. Now you are given a license key. If the source is made available what is stopping someone from releasing a "free" Redhat distro with the license key stripped out?

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  • (Score: 2) by SDRefugee on Wednesday April 19 2017, @01:10PM

    by SDRefugee (4477) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @01:10PM (#496273)

    Ummm CentOS???

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by termigator on Wednesday April 19 2017, @01:57PM

    by termigator (4271) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @01:57PM (#496298)

    Nothing, hence the existence of CentOS.

    Interestingly, CentOS is now part of Redhat.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by HiThere on Wednesday April 19 2017, @05:28PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 19 2017, @05:28PM (#496434) Journal

    The thing stopping people is that it's a lot of work. A few people and groups have done this. Several have mentioned CentOS, but there also is (or was, I don't keep current) WhiteBox Linux, and Scientific Linux. There have been others in the past, like KRUD Linux and Pink Tie Linux, and there may be others currently that I just haven't noticed.

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