But to allude to him as a respected industry member is greatly stretching things when every article that mentions CentOS is disparaging and I can't recall any article even ending on a positive note.
Try google: http://lwn.net/Articles/123934/
(For the record, I couldn't find any previous disparaging comments from him... I stopped at page 6)
Maybe he is a hack, I have no clue. But he is a hack with a fairly big linux-focused audience that repeated a few home truths (in my opinion). I am using it to try to illustrate how the status quo is harming the project. If that isn't important to you or you don't agree, that's fine.
You may agree or disagree with his conclusion but his facts are a reflexion of the CentOS lists.
No. His conclusions are rehashed, sometimes verbatim, from this list and the same vocal and tiny minority of users; and that's one of the problems I have with his style of one-sided journalism - there are two sides to most every story and when you concentrate solely on the negative aspects you are doing your readers a grave disservice.
And those that think everything is peachy are also a tiny minority as far as we know, because I reckon 95%+ of CentOS users never post on the list. I wish people would stop stating what the *think* as *fact*.
If CentOS had a communication policy, it could spare itself these types of articles...
No. These types of articles will continue to appear whether there is a communications "policy" or not.
In my opinion, what a load of clap-trap. If that was the case, then every community project irrespective of governance would get "these" types of articles and as far as I can tell, that just aint the case!
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