On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>wrote: > > > Am 16.08.2013 14:07, schrieb Andrew Wyatt: > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:45 AM, Giles Coochey <giles at coochey.net> > wrote: > >>> While I agree that CentOS will always have support while it is > community > >> driven, and has an upstream - without RedHat, no Centos... the truth of > the > >> matter (when it comes to $$$): > >> > > > > It wouldn't be impossible to continue CentOS without RedHat, the > community > > would be capable of pushing it forward. That's not to say that RedHat > > isn't doing a great job, but if they were to stop the CentOS project > could > > and probably would go on IMHO. > > it would be impossible > > rebuild mostly srpms and do the development are completly different worlds > it would be a *complete* different distribution, the current userbase > is not interested in community developed distribution, if they would > than the would not use CentOS - period > > RedHat Linux is largely a community distribution, it is a collection of upstream community sources with RedHat developers and engineers assigned as package maintainers. Their product is support and not software. I think we all know that rebuilding SRPMS and development are different worlds but that doesn't mean that the community wouldn't come together to continue moving it forward. I know I'd try to help... The biggest challenge would be in developing the next major iteration but for a product already deep into its cycle like CentOS 6 it wouldn't be very difficult at all. It may shed a number of CentOS users on the front end, but a large number of them would come back.