The Fedora-Red Hat Crisis

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jammag writes "When Linux journalist Bruce Byfield tried to dig for details about the security breach in Fedora's servers, a Red Hat publicist told him the official statement — written in non-informative corporate-speak — was all he would get. In the wake of Red Hat's tight-lipped handling of the breach, even Fedora's board was unhappy, as Byfield details. He concludes: 'If Red Hat, one of the epitomes of a successful FOSS-based business, can ignore FOSS when to do so is corporately convenient, then what chance do we have that other companies — especially publicly-traded ones — will act any better?'"http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/09/10/029231 (http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/10/029231&from=rss)
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