[Centos] Red Hat Legal Targets www.centos.org website content

[Francois Caen]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 13:17:41 -0500, Scott Sharkey
<ssharkey at linuxunlimited.com> wrote:
> CentOS will continue, even if RedHat is purchased by Microsoft and
> absorbed by the borg...

Several people have said this on this thread.

I don't know if it's true. Maintaining CentOS is (I over-simplify)
rebuilding RH's SRPMs.

Without the SRPMs, it takes a lot of people to backport patch all the
packages, compile, test/QA,... It's what the Fedora Legacy project is
currently doing and it is a lot of work for a lot of people. Work very
different in nature from the "simple" rebuilding required to maintain
CentOS.

Please don't think I'm taking credit away from the CentOS maintainers.
My point is simply that there is no guarantee that this community
would adapt and become another Fedora Legacy. After all, we'd all be
using RHL and FC with FL updates if that was we wanted. We're here
because we want to use RHEL w/o RH. Very different crowd and needs.

Francois