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  • Patch@feddit.uktoBuy European@feddit.ukEU OS
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    4 days ago

    Red Hat doesn’t own Fedora

    Yes, they kind of do.

    Red Hat own the Fedora name, brand, and logos.

    They own and maintain the website, the servers, and all physical infrastructure used by the Fedora project.

    The Fedora Project Leader is a Red Hat employee (constitutionally they always have to be). The Fedora Operations Architect and Fedora Community Architect are also Red Hat employees.

    7 of the 9 Fedora Community Council members are Red Hat employees.

    The upshot of it all is that Red Hat has full effective control of the project, is the sole main funding sponsor, and has full control over the use of the name, brand, and public image. And of course the main downstream beneficiary of the Fedora codebase is Red Hat/IBM.

    Technically they don’t own the code itself (because it’s open source), but if that’s your metric then no FOSS project can be meaningfully owned by anyone.




  • I’d be inclined to see them as a European company which trades in America, rather than a company with American ownership. The reality is that if you buy a Stellantis European marque in Europe, it’s almost certainly made in European factories, designed by European engineers, and the company’s corporate HQ functions are also in Europe. If you buy a Ram truck from them, though, it’s probably originated from their US operations.






  • apart from Safeway but I haven’t seen one of those in a long time

    I hate to break this to you in a “you’re getting old” way, but Safeways disappeared literally 20 years ago. They were bought out by Morrisons.

    Morrisons, while we’re on the subject, is owned by an American private equity group.