On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:25:16PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Neil Aggarwal wrote: > > Les: > > > > Honest question, not intended to be smart assed in any > > way: > > > > Why have you not moved to SL since they have released the > > update before CentOS? > > If I liked changing things on a whim, I wouldn't be using enterprise > type distributions in the first place. And since this '5.4' discussion > is about the future - it's sad but I don't any more faith in the future > of research funding than in volunteer efforts. > > But philosophically, it just seems wrong that the rebranding work has to > be done at all, much less multiple times. Maybe so. But a much more difficult problem to overcome, and not one that's likely to change. RH has $$, and $$ are a target for lawsuits. RH needs to be able to make it clear they are *not* CentOS. Just the world we live in. Honestly, RH doesn't even have to make it as easy as they do (see SLES). Ray