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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:19AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:19AM (#496212)

    So it will:
        * Not be Linux

    "Fedora abandons Linux" got modded Troll already, have fun.

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:39AM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:39AM (#496215) Journal

    Sorry for being devils advocate but if they leave out Linux and any other Unix standard that seems just the thing to do if they want to leave the option open to make it incompatible.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @04:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @04:30PM (#496396)

    So I went and checked the comment. Sure the title said what you claim, but the comment was:

    We knew from day one this mumbo jumbo wouldn't fly.

    Honestly, what sane person would try to make money from any software licensed under the GPL, which was drafted by a hippie communist to fulfill his manifesto of driving the price of all software to zero.

    The GNU Manifesto plainly says, you won't get paid. Do something else.

    Zero to do with the title, and a very trollish comment that ignores actual reality. The web runs on Linux and last I checked the web is home to a massive amount of profit making business. Try again little chickadee.

  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday April 19 2017, @04:41PM (2 children)

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @04:41PM (#496409)

    Maybe 2018 will be the "year of the Hurd desktop". Hurd/systemd would be a weird combination though.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by WillR on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:18PM

      by WillR (2012) on Wednesday April 19 2017, @06:18PM (#496466)
      I dunno, "Herd of Unix-Replacing Daemons" sounds like a fair description of systemd to me.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:34AM

      by kaszz (4211) on Thursday April 20 2017, @01:34AM (#496647) Journal

      Considering the Hurd layout. Systemd might not even fill any function at all?