[CentOS-devel] Balancing the needs around the CentOS platform

On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 8:08 AM Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote:

> >
> > It will just be a terrible shame. None of us wants to see this. We
> > want Red Hat to be the unifying force. We want to help Red Hat. But,
> > if Red Hat doesn't want us around any more - it will be more like a
> > break up with a first girlfriend. Life goes on.
> >
> > It's up to you, CentOS/RHEL. You basically have these choices:
> >
> > 1. CentOS 8 stays, and "EL" distributions use CentOS 8 as a common
> > baseline.
> >
> > 2. RHEL 8, including minor releases, stays accessible in source form,
> > so that the community can build a clone that aligns with RHEL 8 for
> > the purposes of *standards*, not for the purpose of *cheap*.
> >
> > 3. RHEL 8 hides the source behind a legal framework that makes it
> > difficult or impossible for "bug-for-bug" compatibility to be
> > maintained. Either the community reverse engineers this (for example,
> > OpenJDK 8 is kind of like this), or the community creates its own
> > baselines and ignores RHEL. RHEL becomes irrelevant.
> >
>
> For some days now I was thinking exactly about this:
>
> What is Red Hat going to do to stop rebuilders like Oracle in future?
>
> I mean, it doesn't make sense at all to stop CentOS Linux, whose users are
> for sure the most loyal to Red Hat, and let the big profit makers like
> Oracle go on and even help them to improve their profits.
>
> So, what are you, Red Hat, going to do to prevent this?
>
> I'm sure you have plans and I'm interested to hear how these plans look
> like.
>
> I'm really sure Red Hat has to stop rebuilders somehow, otherwise a large
> number of CentOS Linux users will just move on to another clone and nobody
> will use CentOS Stream in the end. That would be a real lose-lose
> situation.
>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
>
We're not stopping rebuilders.  We're just no longer sponsoring them.  This
is in line with the rest of our products.

           -Mike


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