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Who heads Fedora?

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Actually though Redhat issues Fedora, it is community driven and supported and Redhats role is merely due to it's name and trademarks being associated with the product; if you were to try to sue someone over Fedora, Redhat has no legal responsibility for the product. So yes, they have attached their trademark to the product but no, they don't support it.

You're right, they don't do the time consuming and expensive work of supporting the product.

However, they aren't just supplying a "name and trademarks".

Here's a quote from the RedHat site:
Red Hat will retain editorial control over The Fedora Project but will explicitly include external developers in the process of making technical decisions that align with the project objectives. This is an evolutionary, not revolutionary change; by depending on and contributing to Open Source software since the inception of Red Hat Linux, Red Hat has always shared control over the software with external developers. Red Hat will now more explicitly share control for packaging with external developers in our new project: The Fedora Project.

The developers who make up the project will create a process for organizing project decision-making.

Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 06/17/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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