Fedora Core 3 Transferred to Fedora Legacy

[Rahul Sundaram]

Mike McCarty wrote:

> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>>>
>> Mission to provide a  community oriented completely Free and open 
>> source operating system.
>
> This answer is perhaps not incorrect, but is at least incomplete,
> by comparison to what you stated in your long missive. AIUI, there
> are four (at least) reasons Red Hat is contributing to Fedora...
>
> (1) community good will
> (2) good will among a possible customer base for RHEL
> (3) "free" contributions to testing, defect finding, and defect repair
> (4) building a base of people who are accustomed to using the
>     Red Hat formula for install/maintenance etc, i.e. "brand
>     recognition and familiarity"
>
> So, not all motives are altruistic. That's ok.

If you look at the prior announcements it has always been open that the 
benefits is going to be mutual.  Red Hat has used its business 
justification to calm down concerns that it is not merely code getting 
thrown over the wall with Fedora.. As long as there is a good section of 
the users getting benifitted from Fedora they dont have to complain 
about Red Hat sharing some of it. Anybody could build a commercial 
product out of a part of Fedora just like Red Hat has. The foundation 
makes everyone a equal opportunity player. Red Hat can hope to get more 
benefits perhaps only by participating in the process more than others.  
Establishment of the foundation would mean that you dont have to just 
trust Red Hat's word on it and it provides a legal bond that the 
community contributions are going to remain free (in both senses) 
forever among several other defined goals.

-- 
Rahul 

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