[CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

Sun Mar 27 16:43:00 UTC 2011
Gary Scarborough <gscarborough at gmail.com>

Fair enough.  I have no complaints with the current volunteers.  I was
mainly just curious.  Thanks for the reply.

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Ian Murray <murrayie at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>
> >There have been a number of recent conversations on the developer list and
> this list about CentOS.  My initial thought was why not have CentOS and SL
> merge.  Since they have different goals I can understand the reason not to.
> So my next question is, has no corporate entity offered to sponsor full time
> people to work on CentOS?  It seems like a lot of companies use CentOS for
> various things.  I can't believe no one is willing to help speed development
> by paying for people to build full time.  Has this subject come up before?
> >
>
>
> As far as I can tell, it is as simple as this:-
>
> The volunteers that create CentOS like things the way it is and it isn't
> likely to change. We seen it said a number of times, if we don't like it
> then go somewhere else. I suggest there might be room for another rebuild
> project that is open to commercially sponsored, i.e. somewhere else. This
> would n't be a 'rival' because its aims would be different. I'll be honest
> though, I don't realistically see enough money coming in to put people
> full-time onto it, though, when you consider market rate for the skills
> required.
>
>
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