From a strategic branding point of view it also makes tremendous sense for the Linux Foundation to own Linux.com

"The thing that is different here is if you look at Linux.com, it's a strategic asset of the Linux platform," Zemlin told me. "It goes with managing the Linux brand which is owned by Linus Torvalds and managed by the Linux Foundation. What we really wanted to achieve here is to create a place where the community can come together."

While the Linux Foundation now has ownership of the Linux.com domain, Sourceforge will support the site with advertising sales. Unlike other Sourceforge properties which accept adds from Microsoft, Zemlin claimed that the new Linux.com will not allow any ads that are negative towards Linux.

The new Linux.com might well also continue to maintain some of the existing older content and forums that are currently on Linux.com thought that's not Zemlin's primary goal.

"The future of Linux.com is really not going to be based on the Linux.com of yesterday," Zemlin stated. "We'll still maintain those forums, but what we're really hoping is that Linux.com can be this place where the community had defined and helped to create ideas about what they really want to see ."

It's a great thing in my opinion that the Linux.com name is in the hands of the organization the employs Linus Torvalds. Even if the new Linux.com just becomes a portal for Linux Foundation activities that wouldn't be such a bad thing.

That said, if Linux.com under the direction of the Linux Foundation becomes the Wikipedia of all things Linux, with quality control from the people that maintain and build Linux that would be a very good thing.