On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > > Good ... if you don't like CentOS, then we do not want you to use it. > > For people who do like it, we do want you to use it. > > What we do not want is for people to think that they have a Service > Level Agreement with CentOS to produce updates on their schedule. > > If you WANT a service level agreement with me, then you may contract for > one. If you pay me enough, I will guarantee you updates on what ever > schedule you are willing to pay for. I will be very professional in my > dealings with you in that case too. > > When you want something that is provided for free, and when you want to > treat me like you are paying me a million dollars a year to give it to > you, guess what ... > > You can also get service level agreements from Red Hat or from Oracle or > Novell. This is the kind of answer that CentOS as a project shouldn't allow (KB's recent use-something-else email is another example) because it makes the developers look like rank amateurs.