[CentOS] How serious are we about not wanting to see...

Mon Dec 15 03:04:33 UTC 2014
Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca>

It's a trademark issue. CentOS is not Red Hat, so they can't use Red 
Hat's trademarks. Nothing more, nothing less.

On 14/12/14 09:50 PM, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
> Personally, I am agnostic. I've just read thru  Centos documentation that
> there is a big effort to remove all upstream personalities from Centos.
> Personally, I don't see why RH is doing this. I would think that it
> undermines RH. But I'm still new/old to all of this. It used to be the big
> argument was between Unix from Berkeley(4.? I think) and SysIII/V. Always
> always battles for turf.
>
> Clayton
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
>> Behalf Of Digimer
>> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 6:34 PM
>> To: CentOS mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] How serious are we about not wanting to see...
>>
>> I don't see the concern. CentOS is a binary-compatible clone of Red Hat
>> Enterprise Linux. Further, Red Hat sponsors and supports the CentOS
>> project, providing confidence in it's long-term survival which business
>> looking for a flavour linux want to see.
>>
>> CentOS users should be happy about Red Hat, not scared of it. Likewise,
>> CentOS is valuable to Red Hat as it's the source of their future
>> customers. So it's a very mutually beneficial relationship.
>>
>> digimer
>>
>> On 14/12/14 09:29 PM, Clayton Kirkwood wrote:
>>> Redhat in centos? I type help and the first line says redhat. Are we
>>> paranoid about red..t?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Clayton


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