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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: 4, Insightful) by Subsentient on Thursday April 20 2017, @05:28AM

    by Subsentient (1111) on Thursday April 20 2017, @05:28AM (#496705) Homepage Journal
    Let's end the Fedora hatred circlejerk. Their mission statement means about dick, and was probably drawn up by some community members fresh out of business school and high on buzzwords. Fedora also isn't directly controlled by Red Hat, it's got its own community and governing committee. I'm the developer of the Epoch Init System [universe2.us], and I hate systemd so much I spent a year writing Epoch. That said, I've used Fedora since 2008 and it's a damn good distro, besides the systemd stuff. It's just the right balance of "works out of the box" and "advanced user friendly". The dnf package manager that replaced yum is heavenly, kickstart installation files are awesome and allow me to make my own LiveCDs with all the packages I want installed, and Fedora is extremely bleeding edge yet remains VERY stable. They're only ever a couple releases behind on their kernels, where right now I'm running 4.10.9, and the very latest at kernel.org is 4.10.11. Hate on them all you want, but they're not the devil, and I actually really like Fedora, and I still do to this day.
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    "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
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