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RedHat (http://www.redhat.com) has dismantled the Fedora Foundation. The move was announced on the eve of FUDCon, a Fedora conference that begins on Thursday, the last day of the LinuxWorld show.
June 3, 2005, RedHat has decided to hand over control of the open-source Fedora Project, creating the new Fedora Foundation to manage the project.
April 5, 2005, RedHat cancels Fedora Foundation
A RedHat explanation of the foundation's cancellation, posted to a Fedora mailing list on Tuesday, describes a narrower initial mission: "To act as a repository for patents that would protect the interests of the open-source community."
But the foundation suffered from mission creep, which refers to the process by which a mission's approaches and goals change over time. "Every Fedora issue became a nail for the foundation hammer, and the scope of the foundation quickly became too large for efficient progress," Red Hat's Max Spevack said in the posting.
From an intellectual-property point of view, Red Hat's efforts now are focused on its work with the Open Invention Network, a multi-company effort to amass patents that may be freely used with open-source software, Chief Technology Officer Brian Stevens said in an interview at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston.
And for governing Fedora Core, the company will rely on the Fedora Project Board instead of the foundation. The board includes five Red Hat employees and four outsiders.
For more Information
ZDNet Magazine (http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Red_Hat_cancels_Fedora_Foundation/0,2000061733,39250047,00.htm)
LWN (Linux Weekly News) (http://lwn.net/Articles/178518/)
Linux Online (http://www.linux.org/news/2006/04/06/0004.html)
Fedora Announcement List (https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list)
RedHat (http://www.redhat.com) has dismantled the Fedora Foundation. The move was announced on the eve of FUDCon, a Fedora conference that begins on Thursday, the last day of the LinuxWorld show.
June 3, 2005, RedHat has decided to hand over control of the open-source Fedora Project, creating the new Fedora Foundation to manage the project.
April 5, 2005, RedHat cancels Fedora Foundation
A RedHat explanation of the foundation's cancellation, posted to a Fedora mailing list on Tuesday, describes a narrower initial mission: "To act as a repository for patents that would protect the interests of the open-source community."
But the foundation suffered from mission creep, which refers to the process by which a mission's approaches and goals change over time. "Every Fedora issue became a nail for the foundation hammer, and the scope of the foundation quickly became too large for efficient progress," Red Hat's Max Spevack said in the posting.
From an intellectual-property point of view, Red Hat's efforts now are focused on its work with the Open Invention Network, a multi-company effort to amass patents that may be freely used with open-source software, Chief Technology Officer Brian Stevens said in an interview at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston.
And for governing Fedora Core, the company will rely on the Fedora Project Board instead of the foundation. The board includes five Red Hat employees and four outsiders.
For more Information
ZDNet Magazine (http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Red_Hat_cancels_Fedora_Foundation/0,2000061733,39250047,00.htm)
LWN (Linux Weekly News) (http://lwn.net/Articles/178518/)
Linux Online (http://www.linux.org/news/2006/04/06/0004.html)
Fedora Announcement List (https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-announce-list)