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NewsForge: FUDCon and Folding the Fedora Foundation

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 12, 2006

“Last Friday, after the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, I sat
in on the fifth Fedora User and Developer Conference (FUDCon) at
the Boston University School of Management. Some of the buzz in the
halls concerned Red Hat’s announcement of the end of the Fedora
Foundation (about which more in a moment), but there were some good
talks too.

“Fedora founder Warren Togami’s ‘Welcome to Fedora’ talk dealt
with the history of Fedora, and how Fedora operates. Togami spent a
fair amount of time emphasizing how important Fedora is to Red
Hat’s business, and trying to dispel the notion that Fedora is only
a ‘perpetual beta’ for Red Hat’s enterprise products…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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