Red Hat Opens Network... Now How About a Community? | Linux Today

Red Hat Opens Network… Now How About a Community?

Written By
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Matt Asay
Jun 21, 2008

[ Thanks to Matt Asay
for this link. ]

“Red Hat has been talking about open sourcing its Network for
well over a year. Today, it finally did it.

“However, code by itself is only moderately interesting. What we
need now is a thriving community around ‘Project Spacewalk,’ as Red
Hat calls the Network project.

“Why? Well, because in some ways the commercial open-source
community increasingly fragments as it matures financially…”

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Matt Asay

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