I wrote a blog post to share with you:
https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/balancing-the-needs-around-the-centos-platfo...
Below is a fair summary of the blog post, but I encourage you to read the whole thing for the context around the "availability gap" and the "openness gap":
Summary ======= Letting an outsider take care of the availability gap after the RHL to Fedora/RHEL split meant there was no vehicle for closing the openness gap. Red Hat needed to create or bring-in a solution that was highly available (easy to get) in order to close the gap around openness (easy to contribute to). That was the joining forces with CentOS. And now we think we have something that can cover both the availability and openness gaps, please try it out.
All along Red Has been making a Linux OS that we want to be open, to be available, to be stable enough, and to be sustainable. And now we think we have the next evolution in that decades of work, in the form of CentOS Stream. =======
Kind regards,
- Karsten