On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Reindl Harald h.reindl@thelounge.netwrote:
Am 16.08.2013 14:07, schrieb Andrew Wyatt:
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Giles Coochey giles@coochey.net
wrote:
While I agree that CentOS will always have support while it is
community
driven, and has an upstream - without RedHat, no Centos... the truth of
the
matter (when it comes to $$$):
It wouldn't be impossible to continue CentOS without RedHat, the
community
would be capable of pushing it forward. That's not to say that RedHat isn't doing a great job, but if they were to stop the CentOS project
could
and probably would go on IMHO.
it would be impossible
rebuild mostly srpms and do the development are completly different worlds it would be a *complete* different distribution, the current userbase is not interested in community developed distribution, if they would than the would not use CentOS - period
RedHat Linux is largely a community distribution, it is a collection of upstream community sources with RedHat developers and engineers assigned as package maintainers. Their product is support and not software.
I think we all know that rebuilding SRPMS and development are different worlds but that doesn't mean that the community wouldn't come together to continue moving it forward. I know I'd try to help... The biggest challenge would be in developing the next major iteration but for a product already deep into its cycle like CentOS 6 it wouldn't be very difficult at all.
It may shed a number of CentOS users on the front end, but a large number of them would come back.
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Andrew Wyatt