On 1/22/21 4:53 PM, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 12:16 PM redbaronbrowser via CentOS-devel >> Do they get a louder voice for paying the bills? > > Red Hat's louder voice is based on two different components. The > primary form of this "louder voice" is that Red Hat employs a ton of > engineers who contribute directly to the CentOS Project or the > codebases that become elements of CentOS Project outputs. We speak > loudly in the sense that we can choose what we do and what we don't > do. In the same way committers in a project have a louder voice than > other contributors as they decide what the project will and will not > do. This is the way Open Source works. > There is a silver lining here because at least few people offered to be active in producing CentOS, but were refused for various reasons. What I understood from those exchanges, main reason was CentOS dev team did not want anyone else to know how they are doing things, they wanted tight control. Even requests dev teams publish how they produce CentOS was refused. I never said anything because it did not affect me. So this is a case of "secretive group" deciding and controlling entire project and naturally anyone else had no say in what is done beyond proposing something on the mailing list or forums and hoping group in control will accept their reasoning. Again, as far as I got the no-cost distro I was fine with how it was run, but saying anyone else could have a say/voice is false. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant