Today marks a new day in the 26-year history of Red Hat. IBM has finalized its acquisition of Red Hat, which will operate as a distinct unit within IBM.
What does this mean for Red Hat’s participation in the Fedora Project?
In short, nothing.
Red Hat will continue to be a champion for open source, just as it always has, and valued projects like Fedora that will continue to play a role in driving innovation in open source technology. IBM is committed to Red Hat’s independence and role in open source software communities. We will continue this work and, as always, we will continue to help upstream projects be successful and contribute to welcoming new members and maintaining the project.
In Fedora, our mission, governance, and objectives remain the same. Red Hat associates will continue to contribute to the upstream in the same ways they have been.
We will do this together, with the community, as we always have.
If you have questions or would like to learn more about today’s news, I encourage you to review the materials below. For any questions not answered here, please feel free to contact us. Red Hat CTO Chris Wright will host an online Q&A session in the coming days where you can ask questions you may have about what the acquisition means for Red Hat and our involvement in open source communities. Details will be announced on the Red Hat blog.
* Press release: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-closes-landmark-acquisiti... * Blog from Chris Wright: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-and-ibm-accelerating-adoption-open-so... * FAQ: https://community.redhat.com/blog/2019/07/faq-for-communities/
Regards,
Matthew Miller, Fedora Project Leader
Brian Exelbierd, Fedora Community Action and Impact Coordinator
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 08:57:26 -0400, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
If you have questions or would like to learn more about today’s news, I encourage you to review the materials below. For any questions not answered here, please feel free to contact us. Red Hat CTO Chris Wright will host an online Q&A session in the coming days where you can ask questions you may have about what the acquisition means for Red Hat and our involvement in open source communities. Details will be announced on the Red Hat blog.
Are we likely to get more resources for powerpc work? One way IBM seems to be trying to gain market share for power is by tauting its openness compared to Intel and AMD processors which are only supported along with co-processors acting against the interests of the owner of the processors to support DRM in the consumer market. This would seem to make supporting power a good fit for Fedora.
On Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 12:17 PM Bruno Wolff III bruno@wolff.to wrote:
On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 08:57:26 -0400, Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
If you have questions or would like to learn more about today’s news, I encourage you to review the materials below. For any questions not answered here, please feel free to contact us. Red Hat CTO Chris Wright will host an online Q&A session in the coming days where you can ask questions you may have about what the acquisition means for Red Hat and our involvement in open source communities. Details will be announced on the Red Hat blog.
Are we likely to get more resources for powerpc work?
Unlikely.
One way IBM seems to be trying to gain market share for power is by tauting its openness compared to Intel and AMD processors which are only supported along with co-processors acting against the interests of the owner of the processors to support DRM in the consumer market. This would seem to make supporting power a good fit for Fedora.
Fedora already supports power. In fact, IBM has been helping to drive Fedora on Power for years and has donated a significant portion of hardware and people time towards that.
josh
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