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On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 02:35:22 pm Adam Miller wrote: > On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 12:20:02PM +0100, Sascha Thomas Spreitzer wrote: > > Dear Fedorians, > > > > as I feel frustration about my work in Fedora and I do not agree with > > todays Fedora governance and ruling system I am hereby taking the > > logical step of stopping all my active contributions to this project. > > One major point is that I feel exploited by RedHats installation of > > the Fedora Project and I do not feel it is ok to contribute for a > > companys benefit that is not equal to its project investment. > > > > Thats why I am saying goodbye, with the following sentence; > > "Microsoft is the evil we know. Novell and Oracle is the evil we got > > to know and Canonical and RedHat is the evil we will get to know." > > While I respect your wishes and desires to move on in life, I have to > object to your statements about "Red Hat's installation of the Fedora > Project and I do not feel it is ok to contribute for a companys benefit > that is not equal to its project investment." > > Red Hat employs many Fedora contributors in order to contribute > specifically to Fedora and that should be encouraged, not scoffed at. Red > Hat also funds almost 100% of the infrastructure that allows those of us > who contribute to contribute as well as their funding for all the > ambassador efforts and many many other bits throughout the Fedora scape. > > I think the qualms that Red Hat is getting "something for nothing" isn't > accurate of Red Hat but is in fact true of many companies that use open > source in any way/shape/form for profit, but the difference is that Red > Hat actually takes action and contributes back to the open source > community in both code and content contribution as well as monetary > funding, and for that reason I am happy to stand by their efforts and > defend their name as an outsider of their organization and as a Fedora > contributor. > I bet you can estimate how many holes I can make in your line of reasoning, and for the sake of argument, I won't. However, based on many, many incidents that -each by themselves- mean absolutely nothing, or may not seem to have all that much consequence, but together do indicate a larger problem, you can see where a certain perspective just doesn't meet another perspective. Once you realize that, more things become clearly visible. Kind regards, Jeroen |
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