What is “The Linux Community”?
Fedora is often called a non-community distribution because it is heavily supported by Red Hat and Red Hat has Veto rights in the board. Also, together with claims that Ubuntu is no Community distribution either it raises the question who and what defines the word community in this regard.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, a popular Linux blogger (definitely worth reading), stated today that the Linux community is dead. It died because distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora are influenced/controlled by commercial background and because the Linux Foundation introduced a new board of directors filled with people from big companies - which was nothing surprising, btw., but that’s not the point here.
If you share this point of view, what does community mean? When is something a community, who are the members, and maybe even more important: who are not? When is something not anymore a community?
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