Red Hat nixed Fedora foundation

[Deja Q]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584-6058203.html

:(

Back to SuSE, it seems. x(

[RoyGBiv]

1. Can I ask why?

I don't use Red Hat or Fedora, and do in fact use SuSE, but I'm unclear on why this move would inspire you to abandon what you were using in favor of SuSE.

BTW, that should be capitalized. Red Hat is abandoning the Fedora Foundation, an entity, that, in Red Hat's opinon, was unnecessary and perhaps conflicted with the goals of the Open Invention Network.

Boiled down to its simplest terms, this is a corporate control thing. In this context, I don't see a lot of fundamental difference here between Red Hat and SuSE.

[Deja Q]

2. I heard that

there was an uproar because regular folks were programming for Fedora, whose efforts were siphoned into RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)... and who became the beta testers for that too.

Not much different than Linux people unwittingly programming for what's being distributed in expensive corporate programs or those FreeBSD folks angry at Apple for doing essentially the same thing (OSX = FreeBSD + modified KDE...)

And corporations call those downloading people thieves... :eyes:

[cheezus]

3. webkit is kde, but...

The heart OS X = Mach/BSD + NeXTSTEP.

[DavidMS]

4. Red hat is requred to share their source code under GPL

Red Hat is reuqred to share its source code for the parts of its OS that have GPL components (which compose almost all of the OS, except for some admin tools). Red hat benifits enonormously from the open nature of the code (When I finish my MCSE, and eventualy start studying for a Red Hat Cert, I can download install and use Fedora Core and CENTOS (Red Hat Enterprise w/o serial numbers) for free. The community benifits because RH has full time developers who are releasing their code and compiled products. Everyone (except Micro$oft wins).

Now, if CENTOS had an easy to use WINS server interface as part of SAMBA, I would be very happy.

To get the same software from Micro$oft for internal educational/MS partner use I would need to register as a MS partner and then spend aprox $400 for a Pro Pack (including licenses for XP, Server03, etc). As a result its much easier and cheaper to get the RH server study enviroment.