Red Hat makes its announcement

[Mark Galassi <rosalia galassi org>]

Yuck.  Check out the "About the GNOME Foundation" part.  They mention
who is in the foundation: it is all corporations.  No mention of the
developers.

We should ask for a correction.  Can someone at Red Hat get the PR
people to do so?

At least they use the word GNU.  They do not give the
http://www.gnome.org/ web site.

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        Red Hat, Inc. (ticker: RHAT, exchange: NASDAQ) News Release -
        Tuesday, August 15, 2000 

        Red Hat Joins Industry Vendors as a Founding Member of the
        GNOME Foundation; Foundation to Reinforce and Advance
        GNOME as the World's Leading Open Source Desktop
        Environment


          RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.--(BUSINESS
          WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2000--Red Hat, Inc. (Nasdaq:RHAT), the
          leader in open source Internet infrastructure solutions, today
          announced it has joined the GNOME project and top industry
          vendors including Compaq, Eazel, Helix Code, IBM, Sun
          Microsystems and VA Linux Systems to form the GNOME
          Foundation, a non-profit, unified group of vendors and
          individuals dedicated to advancing the use and extending the
          capabilities of the popular GNOME graphical user
          environment. 

          The GNOME (GNU Network Object Modeling Environment)
          project is an open source, GUI-based user interface for Linux
          designed to run on all modern versions of UNIX-like operating
          systems. Since its development, GNOME has quickly become
          one of the world's leading, free and simple desktop
          environments. 

          Red Hat will assist the GNOME Foundation in leading the
          technical direction of the continuing GNOME project, offering
          forums for industry leaders to contribute to GNOME and in
          promoting the benefits of GNOME. The GNOME Foundation
          will provide organizational and financial support for GNOME
          and related open source projects. 

          "Red Hat has played an integral part in the development of
          code and support for GNOME," said Bob Young, chairman and
          co-founder of Red Hat, Inc. "As one of the key founders of the
          GNOME Foundation, Red Hat is dedicated to working with
          others in advancing this powerful application framework and
          promoting it as the desktop environment of the future." 

          About the GNOME Foundation 

          The GNOME Foundation provides organizational, financial
          and legal support to the GNOME project. The foundation will
          help determine the vision and roadmap for GNOME. It will
          also assist in creating technical standards, coordinate GNOME
          releases, and determine which software projects are part of
          GNOME. The foundation will make public statements and
          administer funds on behalf of the GNOME project. The
          Foundation will be incorporated as a membership-based,
          not-for-profit corporation. 

          You are invited to participate in the GNOME Foundation. We
          welcome contributions in many forms. Our membership
          consists of those individuals who have demonstrated a
          commitment to the development of GNOME through
          participation in the development, documentation and
          promotion of GNOME. The Advisory Board provides a vehicle
          for organizations and companies to communicate with the
          GNOME community and support GNOME. Additional
          information is available at http://www.gnome.org. 

          Joining Red Hat in the GNOME Foundation are: Collab.net,
          Compaq, Debian, Eazel, Free Software Foundation, Gnumatic,
          Helix Code, Henzai, Inc., IBM, Sun Microsystems, and VA
          Linux Systems.