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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20201220/d8f224f8/attachment-0005.html>