It is a strange coincidence that Planet Fedora has stopped syndicating the blogs of volunteers in the same week that Red Hat stopped[1] funding the FSF.
I promised I would consider the Fedora Code of Conduct[2] and with that in mind, I will not speculate that this is any more than a coincidence.
Nonetheless, I was curious what Fedora contributors are writing about the RMS situation. In the spirit of free software development, I created a Fork of Planet Fedora so we can all see if any insights appear about RMS:
Please have a look, share and subscribe. Please post.
https://WeMakeFedora.org/rss20.xml
https://WeMakeFedora.org/atom.xml
Fedora is a trademark of Red Hat. We can be grateful to Red Hat for their immense contributions to Fedora, the FSF and free software in general. Using Fedora in a domain name creates challenges. It is not my intention for WeMakeFedora.org to hijack or impersonate in any way. I plan to add suitable disclaimers to the site to make that clear. Trademark law and previous legal judgments make it clear that we can use the name Fedora to take credit for our contributions to the product. This site has been created for that purpose in good faith.
In some ways it may help Red Hat. Trademark owners rarely give formal endorsement to third-party sites but if the site does not attempt to impersonate or deceive, they can choose to ignore it. As a bonus, they can not be held responsible for what you choose to post there, this may make their lives easier.
Remember the four Foundations[3];
*Freedom*: "We are dedicated to free software and *content*." *content* is important.
*First*: Some of you have made far bigger contributions to Fedora, but somebody had to be first to fork Planet in this week.
I though about creating an Uncensored Fedora site. fedorauncensored.org is available. But I didn't want it to look like https://uncensored.debian.community because in many ways, Fedora does not behave like Debian. So I had to choose some other name. WeMakeFedora.org felt like a good choice.
Regards,
Daniel
1. https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/26/redhat_fsf_funding_richard_stallman/ 2. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ 3. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/