Fedora and the world
Max Spevack
mspevack at redhat.com
Fri May 16 01:40:09 UTC 2008
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>> There was discussion at long time ago about creating a Fedora
>> Foundation, however that proved to be not worth the effort.
>
> I think there is a stronger statement to be made than "not worth the
> effort." It's quite possibly impossible to do as a US non-profit when
> Red Hat's contributions to the project's actual resource consumption
> is tallied given the requirements for non-profit status. And a
> separate for-profit status doesn't actually give us much more than
> what we have right now, except increased staffing needs to act as a
> separate business office.
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00016.html
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