Fedora Project: Announcing New Direction

[Jos Vos]

On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:53:39AM -0700, Florin Andrei wrote:

> That's looking at the empty half of the bottle. :-)
> 
> If you look at the other half, it reads like this:
> The Fedora Project is sort of a "truly open" Linux distribution, a la
> Debian, with little control from commercial entities. This should put a
> stop to the "commercially bastardized Linux" criticisms (at least in
> theory).

Well, as you say, we already have Debian (and many other "truly open"
community distributions).  We also have many "not completely open"
commercial distributions (fill in the names yourself).  And we had
a (truly?) open commercial distribution: Red Hat Linux.  IMHO this
is what we seem to loose now: a fully open distribution, but still
controlled by a single entity (company).  Red Hat Linux played this
role, between the community distributions and the not-completely-open
commercial distributions.  So I still think we *do* loose something.

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