Computerworld: With Fedora, Red Hat Re-Creates its Lost Community

"With the open-source Fedora project, Red Hat Inc. is aiming to rebuild its links to the open-source community and regain that community's input for its innovation process. The developers and users now contributing to the Fedora project -- which a Red Hat executive credited with providing the starting point for the company's latest Enterprise Linux release -- had their first-ever meeting at a conference on Friday in Boston.

"Until the launch of the Fedora effort in 2003, users had no direct impact on Red Hat's software development process, and some of those users considered that to be to the company's detriment..."

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