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Eric Raymond, influential developer and co-founder of the Open Source Initiative, has delivered a public rebuke to Red Hat’s Fedora project has now moved to Ubuntu for his desktop. Now if you have been a Linux fan you know who he is and this is big news for Ubuntu and should start to close down the walls that is Fedora and Redhat.

I like the idea of Linux and of Redhat being a company but between them and Novell they have grossly mismanaged Linux to the point of making it a bad choice. Not that IBM has not helped that either.

Now that Eric on the Ubuntu bandwagon I can’t wait to see who else jumps ship. Again I would like to point out that I jump from the Fedora and SUSE ship long before Eric and no one is writing anything about me. I guess the read my blog and figured it would be a good time to jump. Welcome to Ubuntu Eric.

” Over the last five years, I’ve watched Red Hat/Fedora throw away what was at one time a near-unassailable lead in technical prowess, market share and community prestige. The blunders have been legion on both technical and political levels. They have included, but were not limited to:”

• Chronic governance problems.
• Persistent failure to maintain key repositories in a sane, consistent state from which upgrades might actually be possible.
• A murky, poorly-documented, over-complex submission process.
• Allowing RPM development to drift and stagnate — then adding another layer of complexity, bugs, and wretched performance with yum.
• Effectively abandoning the struggle for desktop market share.
• Failure to address the problem of proprietary multimedia formats with any attitude other than blank denial.

Here Here! SuSE is on the same path and Novell is now in bed with Microsoft.

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More Info on Eric’s Move from Redhat and Why? Man this is good stuff.

Resons to like Eric