Corporate sponsorship ( was Re: Going passive )

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:49:04 +0000,
  "\"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson\"" <johannbg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> How will a person that happens to work for that corporate but joined the 
> community and is doing good honest work on his own accord be able to 
> earn the trust and respect amongst the community members?
> ( There will always be doubt with his actions since he's tied to the 
> corporate entity ).

One might notice that Red Hat supports making it easy to fork Fedora.
It is self hostable and is designed to make replacing trademarks easy.

One might get to know people who are on the board and make a judgement on
whether they have some secret agenda or not. (If the board is really
filled up with a bunch of double dealing psychopaths, they are wasting
their talents and should find some companies to become CEOs of and loot.
There's no money here.)