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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: 3, Insightful) by srobert on Wednesday April 19 2017, @05:06PM (1 child)

    by srobert (4803) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @05:06PM (#496424)

    At my workplace, we did a change of mission statement a few years ago. I can't remember what it is now. But my coworkers seemed embarassed when I suggested that the mission statement that we had had for decades was still applicable and didn't need to be changed. It was the same sort of embarassment witnessed when someone points out the nakedness of an emperor.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @07:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @07:27PM (#496500)

    I think we have a 'Mission Statement', but to paraphrase someone, when I hear the words 'Mission Statement', I reach for my LART..

    Re Redhat/Fedora, I started with Slackware, made quite a good living from running and administering Redhat boxes, for which I do thank them, but heard the faint refrain 'Danger Will Robinson!' when RHEL lumbered onto the scene..cue one disastrous fubar too many with a critical server a few years later ..switched to Debian (which the backup servers were running anyway..eggs in one basket? I think not...) , and now Debian have screwed the pooch I'm back at Slackware, and a yet-to-be-decided *BSD.

    Redhat/Fedora free now for just over a decade.