Red Hat closes Fedora Foundation

Group will focus its resources on the Fedora development Project

Red Hat is to close the Fedora Foundation, a unit set up to encourage Linux development in the open-source community.

Max Spevack, Fedora Project Leader, said in a note to mailing list members that the company would instead focus its attentions on the end-user group, the Fedora Project. Spevack said that the aims of the Foundation were too wide, “every Fedora issue became a nail for the Foundation hammer, and the scope of the Foundation quickly became too large for efficient progress,” he said in the email.

Meanwhile, Red Hat has restructured its board. A chairman with the power of veto will oversee nine board members, from both the Foundation and Red Hat. Spevack will be this chairman.

The restructuring is likely to be a big topic of debate at LinuxWorld today, and during the rest of the week.