> ....Discourse, the software > are > using, has been around since 2014, and is entirely open source (not > merely > open core, which is a rare pleasant situation I'm happy to > encourage). > Six or seven years, and not on a platform governed by an IEEE/IETF standard, though. I'll have to dig through it to understand its internals to put my mind at ease, as, I think my primary dependence on IRC is that it's goverend by an RFC-driven protocol so, you know, if that system fails, another will pop up that implements that protocol. Same for mailing lists. That also means there's a whole downstream ecosystem of tools around them both. > On the IBM comments, let me add: I've seen no evidence of any undue > IBM > influence on Red Hat's corporate plans (and while I'm not exactly a > corporate suit, I'm positioned well enough that I'd notice), *let > alone* on > Fedora. In fact, I'd really love to see IBM become a little more > involved. > Our resourcing from Red Hat is pretty narrowly focused (on RHEL > success), > and IBM could help invest in some more speculative things and wider > community priorities. But, as of so far, no influence for either ill > *or* > good. Well. I just hope both Fedora and RedHat keep in memory that they were bought because they were successful. IBM needed them not the other way around. I sound like I hate IBM. I actually don't. I'm just mid-scramble watching all the movement with these acquisitions the last few years (not just RH) and still trying to get a decent view of where it's going. Some of that's an artifact of the legacy the corporate space has with open source. If monolithic fortune lists collaborate to deplatform a troll like Alex Jones, who knows what they'll do to establish an oligarchy in the systems and software markets worth trillions of dollars in investment returns. :: puts on a tin foil fedora :: -C _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list -- council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to council-discuss-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
