On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Alan McKay alan.mckay@gmail.com wrote:
Basically from what I gather, while Red Hat cannot restrict access to sources, they can restrict access to binaries. And since CentOS has a goal of binary compatibility with upstream, they are essentially left trying to hit an unknown target. But (now I'm stretching my limited knowledge even further) Scientific does not have this restriction since they are less concerned about exact binary compat.
You are stretching your knowledge to a wrong direction :)
Both CentOS and Scientific Linux *aim* at 100% binary compatibility and they are both doing their best toward that goal. However, neither is perfect.
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-November/119250.html
Akemi