op 08-01-14 11:54, Johnny Hughes schreef: > On 01/08/2014 02:14 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On >>> Behalf Of Yves Bellefeuille >>> Sent: den 8 januari 2014 01:36 >>> To: centos at centos.org >>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS Project joins forces with Red >>> Hat >>> >>>> With great excitement I'd like to announce that we are joining the Red >>>> Hat family. The CentOS Project ( http://www.centos.org ) is joining >>>> forces with Red Hat. Working as part of the Open Source and Standards >>>> team ( http://community.redhat.com/ ) to foster rapid innovation >>>> beyond the platform into the next generation of emerging technologies. >>> Wow. I'm not entirely sure this is good news. We'll see. >> My first thought as well. Redhat already has Fedora as a testing ground. So >> for Redhat acquiring another free distribution makes me wary, unnecessarily so >> maybe... >> >> I hope CentOS will continue to be The "free" stable enterprise solution. >> -- >> //Sorin > Think about this. RDO, GlusterFS, oVirt, and OpenShift Origin are all > Red Hat community offerings that need to have a long lived community > base OS to speed their usage and growth. > > All of those also have a paid equivalent (Open Stack Platform, Storage, > RHEV, and Open Shift) where Red Hat gets paying customers if the > community projects thrive. It is absolutely in Red Hat's best interest > for all of the community software listed above to do well. > > Red Hat wants their paid platforms to continue to be successful, they > therefore want their community projects to be successful. > > CentOS and Red Hat are joining forces to make those (and other) > community projects more successful. It is a simple as that and it is in > both the CentOS Project's and Red Hat's best interest for both of us to > thrive and grow. > > Fedora, a Linux distribution to deliver "state of the art" features, is > also always going to be "Red Hat Enterprise Linux ... Next". Fedora is > also a great Linux distribution in its own right. It is obviously still > very much in Red Hat's best interest for Fedora to continue to grow. > > Is Red Hat in business to make money ... of course they are. Does Red > Hat make more money or less money if their community projects do well? > Of course they make more money if more people use their community > projects. Red Hat wants CentOS, Fedora, RDO, GlusterFS, oVirt, > OpenShift Origin, and every other project where they provide support to > do thrive and grow. > > Is it in the CentOS Project's best interest for RHEL and Fedora to > continue to grow ... of course it is. > > Karanbir Singh (the Chair of the CentOS Project board) and Robyn > Bergeron (the Fedora Project Leader) have both posted blog entries that > discuss these items in further detail: > > http://www.karan.org/blog/2014/01/07/as-a-community-for-the-community/ > > http://wordshack.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/centos-welcome/ > > This is not rocket science folks. We all want all of these open source > projects to do well. > > I am very excited about this arrangement and I think we all win. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos +1