fedora mission (was Re: systemd and changes)

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Sat Aug 28 19:09:54 UTC 2010


On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:42:15 -0700,
  Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
> 
> This is utter bullshit. It assumes that anybody who works in the corporate world and happens to have an interest in Fedora is somehow going to be a puppet for the Smokey backroom corporate overlords and their evil designs upon Fedora. It's ludicrous.  What about people who work for a university, or work for themselves? Are they somehow immune to making decisions that benefit themselves or their paycheck writer?

For my part I was assuming that the hypothetical buyer might order their
employees not to work on Fedora any more if they wanted to keep their jobs.
I further assumed that not all of the employees would be in a position to
immediately resign and would not be able to participate in the new Fedora
for a noticeable period of time.

The particular issue with Redhat employees is that there are a lot of them
contributing to Fedora and doing a lot of work for Fedora. If my employer
banned employees from working on Fedora, I think I would be the only
contributor (not counting people who just file bug reports or
lurk on the mailing lists) taken out.

I think takeover of Redhat by some company hostile to Fedora is possible,
but pretty unlikely.


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