Red Hat Flips Its Fedora

The Fedora Project gets flipped into a new group, the Fedora Foundation, and spun off from the main corporation. Seeking greater support from the open source community, Raleigh-based Red Hat announced at its conference in New Orleans the formation of the Fedora Foundation. The move was likely a response to those who see Red Hat as becoming too corporate in its workings, and mirrors AOL's spinoff of the Mozilla project into its own foundation. Red Hat will still provide financial support for the new group. Quite a few projects in the open source community have earned substantial support from developers. Apache and MySQL stand out with the number of developers each has working on its projects. Red Hat seems to be hoping for a similar boost. Some developers have been unhappy with the company since it introduced Fedora. Red Hat has controlled the initiative since its departure from the individual consumer market in favor of its Enterprise Linux offering. One might wonder what here