From: Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com
As pointed out many times before on this list, RedHat is a great company, and they do a lot of things for the OSS community ... but they are not the "owners" of the code that CentOS uses. They get almost all the items they publish from somewhere else. They are required, therefore, to make their source code public.
But Red Hat does release pretty much even anything "original" as GPL as well.
They take that requirement seriously, and they do an outstanding job of publishing their source code openly. They should be commended for that. I do it every chance I get :)
And I personally appreciated your objectivity, alongside your dedication to the project. It's hard to find such a combo. Many people who put sweat into something are a bit eccentric.
You are one who truly stands on the shoulders of others while lifting those above you far more than most.
-- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org