Our choice of registering in Delaware has nothing to do with wanting to somehow hide officer names from the community, or conceal financial statements. There are many advantages of incorporating in Delaware. You can read about some of those here: https://www.upcounsel.com/why-incorporate-in-delaware
We’re pretty open about who is part of the Rocky Linux Foundation, you can even see all of our LinkedIn profiles linked on the wiki. As for financials, at present we have none. We don’t have a product to sell. It’s an open source effort run by volunteers. We will be using donations to help offset operational costs, which are presently being funded by individual contributions.
Thanks for that, I’ve edited the post to reflect the correct format. The markdown engine that Discourse uses seems to automatically format (c) as (c).
A neat workaround I discovered was pasting a zero-width space between ( and c, and then deleting it.
Good question. Our build platform is going to be in AWS. In AWS there are commercial regions such as us-east-1, eu-west-1, etc., and there are ‘closed’ regions that don’t have any access to commercial. GovCloud and China are two such regions. So what we’re saying is that we intend to not only deploy Rocky to the standard commercial regions, but to GovCloud for our ITAR friends and to China for those folks over there.
AWS is available in China, so I probably misunderstood what you meant by “commercial regions”. I thought you wanted to use another web service by working with a company in China
Nope. We’ll be using AWS in China, it just takes committing to deploying there because otherwise what you deploy in any of the standard (commercial) regions won’t be replicated to China, as it’s isolated.
Thank you for the great update!!..We would love to see Rocky Linux becoming first and farmost the best freely available enterprice OS even much better than CentOS, Perhaps surpassing the RHEL!! #iSupportRockyLinuxFoundation.
Many Thanks!!
No. We will be communicating more precise timelines in our next community update (early next week), but our build infrastructure is slated to be in place by the end of January.