<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 2:32 PM, seth vidal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skvidal@fedoraproject.org">skvidal@fedoraproject.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 23:45 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:<br>
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> I would like those things too but it is a balance. Oracle taking over<br>
> Sun and screwing up things (Oracle lawsuit against Google, Shutting<br>
> down Postgres test servers, OpenSolaris etc) has been pushing me towards<br>
> advocating more diversity and less centralized control.<br>
><br>
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</div>Okay, now I'm good and confused.<br>
<br>
Let's say red hat gets purchased by $evil_company. What exactly is it<br>
you think fedora's going to be able to do?<br>
<br>
A huge number of developers/maintainers on crit-path are going to be<br>
either:<br>
1. allowed to do what they are doing now<br>
2. not allowed to do what they are doing now<br>
<br>
If it is the first then fedora continues as-is and it has nothing to do<br>
with who is in control of the board.<br>
<br>
If it is the second then fedora is 'done', if only b/c all of our releng<br>
and central mail(bastion) infrastructure is owned by red hat and no<br>
matter who is on the board, that ownership of resources doesn't change.<br>
<br>
I just don't see the point in worrying about it. If red hat gets<br>
consumed and the consuming company is $evil then fedora is, for all<br>
intents and purposes, over. The devels working for red hat or not<br>
working for red hat will just pick up whatever pieces they have and<br>
either rename/relocate or they will not.<br>
<br>
If it was me, and I had to pick up the pieces, I wouldn't even try to<br>
keep the fedora name (not that the trademark ownership would let you<br>
anyway). There's a small amount of brand-recognition advantage and a lot<br>
of legacy crap to carry over with.<br>
<br>
So what's the point in de-centralizing it? What do we get out of it?<br></blockquote><div><br>Quoted for truth.<br><br>--g <br></div></div>