- RH has hand-selected certain RH employees to perform the CentOS
project, not more, not fewer
IOW, much of this is about #3.
I think you need to lay off the consperacy theories Larry, really. Just because the devs have better things to do right now (like completing 4.9/5.6/6) rather than training a bunch of newbies, that does not automatically mean that they are trying to protect exclusivity...only productivity. IMPO we would all be a lot better off if everyone here would lay off the core team and let them do their work.
-David