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The person who wrote this thinks Redhat cannot afford a 500k Linux foundation membership... I don't think that is correct. They should really step up.
by tbrock 10y ago
The person who wrote this thinks Redhat cannot afford a 500k Linux foundation membership... I don't think that is correct.
They should really step up.
- toyg 10y agoI don't think the Foundation is particularly key to Linux development in general; they don't mandate anything, they're there to do a bit of bureaucracy nobody wants to do (IP etc) and pay a few salaries for a handful of key hackers so they can work with a degree of freedom from commercial pressure. This is mostly a PR exercise from Microsoft. John Gossman has better things to do than sitting in more pointless meetings; his appointment to the board is just another way of screaming AZURE LOVES LINUX and WE LOVE OSS SO MUCH WE PAID 500 GRAND. RedHat doesn't need to do that. Their 500K are better spent employing the likes of Poettering so they can define what Linux actually is.
- slgeorge 10y agoPlus they don't handle IP in any meaningful sense. For that you have to pay into OIN (http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/about-us/ http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/about-us/).