Red Hat will close the Fedora Foundation as it restructures its end-user-focused Fedora Project, the company announced Tuesday in an e-mail.In a message sent to Red Hat’s Fedora mailing list, Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack said the Foundation was not helping the company to achieve its goals for the total project.The Fedora Project is designed as a vehicle for Red Hat to engage the open-source development community and provide for continuing development of free-use open-source products.Originally designed to be the holder of open-source patents and guarantee the public’s right to use them, “the scope of the Foundation quickly became too large for efficient progress,” Spevack said. He gave five reasons why the Foundation was not successful as originally conceived, including the Open Invention Network (OIN), which Red Hat also backs, doing a better job of aggregating business open-source patents commons, and insufficient legal standing to defend related copyrights.OIN was founded by several companies with open-source interests, including IBM and Sony. Instead of the Foundation, Red Hat will strengthen the board of the Fedora Project, and authorize it to address the concerns and provide support to its development community, Spevack said. He also said Red Hat will keep its promise of “once free, always free” on Fedora.-Steven Schwankert, IDG News ServiceCheck out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content opinion Website spoofing: risks, threats, and mitigation strategies for CIOs In this article, we take a look at how CIOs can tackle website spoofing attacks and the best ways to prevent them. By Yash Mehta Dec 01, 2023 5 mins CIO Cyberattacks Security brandpost Sponsored by Catchpoint Systems Inc. Gain full visibility across the Internet Stack with IPM (Internet Performance Monitoring) Today’s IT systems have more points of failure than ever before. Internet Performance Monitoring provides visibility over external networks and services to mitigate outages. By Neal Weinberg Dec 01, 2023 3 mins IT Operations brandpost Sponsored by Zscaler How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty Now is the time to overcome the challenges of perimeter-based architectures and reduce costs with zero trust. By Zscaler Dec 01, 2023 4 mins Security feature LexisNexis rises to the generative AI challenge With generative AI, the legal information services giant faces its most formidable disruptor yet. That’s why CTO Jeff Reihl is embracing and enhancing the technology swiftly to keep in front of the competition. By Paula Rooney Dec 01, 2023 6 mins Generative AI Digital Transformation Cloud Computing Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe