Am 10.12.20 um 07:09 schrieb Nicolas Kovacs:
Le 10/12/2020 à 00:51, Joshua Kramer a écrit :
There have been hundreds of other messages that describe exactly what RedHat loses in this deal so I won't go into that here. But branding oneself as a "bad faith actor" is usually a terrible way to try to pick up a little bit of subscription revenue. In the end it's going to be a losing scenario. This is an absolutely UNMITIGATED DISASTER from a marketing and community goodwill standpoint.
Reactions from competent sources all over the world are downright negative.
https://linuxfr.org/news/centos-se-saborde-t-elle
https://kofler.info/nachruf-auf-centos/
And this petition launched a bit more than a day ago already counts 3500 signatures (and growing fast):
https://www.change.org/p/centos-governing-board-do-not-destroy-centos-by-usi...
If I was a CentOS developer or a Red Hat employee, a mere glance at the comments would inform me that I've just made a disastrous decision. Even if there *may* be *some* technical merits to it.
It must be a strong management when they roll back. Hope is the last one that die ...
-- Leon