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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: 3, Interesting) by urza9814 on Wednesday April 19 2017, @02:00PM (1 child)
So the message I'm getting from this new mission statement is: Don't install Fedora.
And I don't mean that as in "Boycott them because they screwed up." It's not my message, it's theirs. It's no longer "a general purpose operating system", it's now merely a component used "to build tailored solutions." They want to exist purely as an upstream project, and apparently don't think they can produce production-ready software anymore.
What a shame...I found Fedora to be a perfect media center / steambox solution...guess I'll have to find something else now.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @03:25PM
The message I get is "Written by Committee of MBAs".