On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 3:20 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > > Yeah, and the author *really* doesn't understand, and didn't bother to > try, to do their research. > > Excerpt: > Arguably one critical area that CentOS hasn't helped Red Hat is with > developers. While developers want the latest and greatest technology, Red > Hat's bread-and-butter audience over the years has been operations > departments, which want stable and predictable software. (Read: boring.) > CentOS, by cloning RHEL's slow-and-steady approach to Linux development, > is ill-suited to attracting developers. > --- end excerpt --- How about the real history, where Red Hat took a bunch of software developed by others, published the barely-working stuff with horrible bugs (read the changelogs if you disagree....), then accepted contributed debugging, fixes and improvements from the users until it was good enough to charge for, then they cut off access even to the people who had helped make it usable. And CentOS helps fix that problem. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com