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Red Hat cuts Fedora Program Manager

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 20, 2023

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I was surprised when Red Hat laid off 4% of its staff. It was a bad move. But, I never saw Red Hat laying off community Linux distro Fedora Program Manager Ben Cotton, until I saw his blog post about leaving Red Hat.

Cotton has played a major role in making Fedora an outstanding Linux community both for users and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) developers. He was also the CentOS Stream program manager. And, he authored Program Management for Open Source Projects. In short, he was a major mover and shaker in open-source circles and in RHEL development.

Or, in other words, he was not the kind of person I saw Red Hat, or any other tech company, getting rid of.

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