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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 turgid on Wednesday April 19 2017, @12:53PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday April 19 2017, @12:53PM (#496265) Journal

    Linus always said that Linux code contributions would be licensed in a certain way (no single owner for the whole kernel) in case he ever went to the Dark Side. Redhat are well and truly over on the Dark Side now.
    Will Linus be tempted?
    How exciting!

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