dimanche 1 septembre 2013

And if Red Hat disappears?

Since my entry in the Fedora project, I've a question: And if Red Hat disappears?

After some research, I found many things a little disturbing. The Fedora Project Leader is automatically hired by RH [1], we don't have a bugzilla.fedoraproject but a bugzilla.redhat, Fedora® and the Logo is a trademark of RedHat [2]...

I want to draw your attention on the fact that RH is a company, and RH is on the stock exchange. Imagine the filing for bankruptcy of RH. The Fedora Project will be very handicaped: no bugzilla, no trademark, many contributors go away... It's very dangerous.

Or worse, imagine RH become bad. If RH files for bankruptcy, we can recover the Fedora® trademark, the Bugzilla... But if RH became bad, it's very, very, very worse. Nevermore Fedora Trademarks, nevermore Logo, and all community of Fedora Project will be redesigned.
But, what to do?

It's good for the project that Fedora is a registered trademark ( otherwise, anyone can use the Fedora name , we have an example withe Linux [3]). But, for me, it's a mistake if it's registred by a company. I see more the Fedora Project Leader, or other important people of Fedora.

And we should have a bugzilla in our domain (bugzilla is an example it's the same for all resources)

It's very difficult to solve this, but we must do this, we must imagine the worst.


[1]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Project_Leader?rd=Fedora_Project_Leader
[2]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines?rd=Legal/Trademark_guidelines#Use_by_Red_Hat
[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux#Copyright.2C_trademark.2C_and_naming

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  1. Anonyme1 septembre 2013 à 07:44

    https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2006-April/msg00016.html

    enjoy

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    1. Unknown1 septembre 2013 à 09:12

      Hi mairin,

      I you see the wiki page of the Fedora Foundation (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundation), the foundation is replaced by the board. And the board doesn't have trademark or other things.

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    2. Anonyme1 septembre 2013 à 13:17

      Hi Alexandre,

      Did you read the link I sent? It explains why.

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    3. Unknown2 septembre 2013 à 00:01

      Hi mairin,

      Yes I read your link, yes the foundation isn't the good response. But, in fact, right now, red hat hold all patents. If RH want, it can destruct the project... So RH isn't the good response too.

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  2. Anonyme3 septembre 2013 à 07:13

    Red Hat has a patent promise covering FOSS:
    http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html

    This means it can't really destroy Fedora with patents.

    Now, if Red Hat were to go under (a rather unlikely scenario), one could simply take the last version of Fedora and use it as a starting point, replacing the trademarks (all in fedora-logos & fedora-release packages), and continue onward. This is a conscious choice by Red Hat, to attempt to calm the sort of fears you have.

    But really, if Red Hat goes away, there are bigger issues to deal with than "What happens to Fedora?". :) I rely on Red Hat for my paycheck, and I do not worry about this possibility.

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    1. Unknown3 septembre 2013 à 08:00

      Hi spot, thank's for your reply.
      Yes, If RH became bad, we (and mostly you) should have other fish to fry ;)
      But, we have other problem, RH is the largest (only?) donor. You're right, if RH disappears, the FedoraProject will be problems. It's another problem (and an another article).

      So, you're right. RH can't destroy the project, but it may bother him much...

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