In article CALKwpEyuPRU5Az9xU_d_BrJc0m_E9XDLH1T5iuB2U8rvRZevTg@mail.gmail.com, Brian Mathis brian.mathis+centos@betteradmin.com wrote:
When Redhat announced the changes they made it very clear they were trying to prevent other companies (like Oracle and Novell) who were providing support to RHEL customers at reduced rates. They have never said they were concerned with the free clones and in fact have helped CentOS many times in the past (according to statements from the core developers).
Redhat knows that the free distros help them maintain market share, and gain customers who need full support eventually. The issues CentOS are seeing are simply collateral damage to the larger war against the other big companies who are trying to provide services by cheating.
Except that the other day, Johnny posted this:
I can tell you that we have been contacted by upstream to make sure we **UNDERSTAND** the new AUP restrictions on distribution. I can also tell you that we (CentOS) are doing everything in our power to meet the restrictions as they were explained to us.
which sounds like RH making it clear that their changes are aimed at CentOS too.
Pity... perhaps RH have had a change of manager somewhere...
Cheers Tony