On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 21:10 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: >> 2009/5/26 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> >> >> Subj. As Debian folks did years ago. Such branching will be done very >> >> easy technically. >> > >> > Because all the builds and composition is done in the US, and the trademarks >> > are held by a US entity. >> >> Not a serious reason. Why not to relocate then in Europe? > > Find us a Company in Europe that is not based in the US that is willing > to fund with people and money as much as Red Hat is doing now. A new company acting as Fedora's primary sponsor isn't necessarily needed -- ie it's not "Either Fedora under Red Hat or Fedora under X". Red Hat has been investing in Fedora for many years, and I believe something like eg. founding a Fedora Foundation in Germany wouldn't stop Red Hat from continuing to paying Fedora people internationally and providing money for running our events. Yes, a foundation might have some challenges in running it. But 1. we are having challenges and limitations now too and 2. unless I hear specific show-stoppers for a non-profit in Europe (eg. Germany), I'll continue to believe it could be a viable solution. > Oh, Europe won't help much, there are just as many silly laws there as > there are in the US. Europe is a more multicultural organism, and one could argue that this theoretically leads to less stupid decisions (not necessarily to more wise ones, though). -δ -- Dimitris Glezos Jabber ID: glezos@xxxxxxxxxx, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B http://dimitris.glezos.com/ "He who gives up functionality for ease of use loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous) -- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
