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> could Red Hat eventually take control of the project Fedora started in 2002 and [merged with "Red Hat Linux" in 2003](https://web.archive.org/web/20031001204515/http://www.fedora.us/). Red Hat, Inc has had full control of it ever since then. It is a "community project" inasmuch as there are Fedora developers who are volunteers (and some who are paid by companies other than Red Hat), and the [Fedora Council](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/) includes people who are not employed by Red Hat - but the Project Leader is always a Red Hat employee, and if the Council ever has an irreconcilable difference with Red Hat then Red Hat can simply ignore and/or dismiss them. Red Hat owns all Fedora-related [trademarks](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/trademarks/), and the Fedora Project is [not an independent legal entity](https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/privacy/#_how_to_contact_us): it is a part of Red Hat. If Fedora developers don't like Red Hat's decisions regarding the project, they can fork it but they'd need to change the name and find some other sources funding. Also, icymi, Red Hat became a subsidiary of IBM in 2019.