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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:28AM (3 children)
Don't forget Alan Cox who looks exactly like a homeless bum.
Corporations have usurped "open source" as just another profit motive, and nobody ever cared about "free software" except college socialists and wide-eyed hippie idealists who swear post-scarcity communism will happen just like the manifesto promised.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:39AM (1 child)
Liar! Alan Cox isn't homeless. See here's a photo of him cooking inside an indoors kitchen.
https://nathan.chantrell.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/alan-cooking.jpg [chantrell.net]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 19 2017, @05:57PM
Photo from 8 years ago proves nothing. Alan Cocks could very well be homeless now, living under a bridge, and eating garbage.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday April 19 2017, @09:43AM
Forget green washing, now we have open and free washing. Corporations are money vampires by definition at least when it comes to public shareholder corporations. And they should be treated as such. Corporate friendly but carry a horrible stick.