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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