On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 3:01 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Perhaps we need to separate all ( legal? ) connections to Red Hat ( Red Hat > would then just donate via the same method than anyone else ) to make this > work or directly donate money/hw/stuff directly to each individual SIG's > representatives or perhaps to ambassadors? For what benefit? Again, if Red Hat is still providing the majority of the funding and resources for Fedora, we still end up looking like a tax shelter. If Red Hat isn't providing the majority of the funding for Fedora, then unless a miracle happens and we get a *metric ton* of other funding, we'd end up with less resources than we have now. (And that's just speaking of the budget that Red Hat gives to Fedora, not to mention the salaries for the FPL, members of the infrastructure team, the colocation facilities, the legal support and defense, the public relations help, and so on.) Le me put it much more bluntly: I think the relationship with Red Hat is very beneficial to Fedora, and Fedora is beneficial to Red Hat, and trying to put significant distance between the two is going to cause more problems than it's worth. Again, in an ideal world, we'd be able to do more than we can now -- but there just happens to be a big gap between theory and reality that we can't easily ignore. -- Jared Smith -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
