On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 4:54 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > > 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. I've always thought Red Hat was at its best before they started restricting access to the finished product, even to the community that contributed most of the code and bug reports that made it possible and usable. That is, when they just sold support and the released code was the same for everyone, including the binaries. Without that, I don't think they would exist today. While I greatly appreciate the CentOS project and the way it has continued this access in a practical sense, I still don't understand why Red Hat thinks it is a good idea to dilute their brand name or make it less visible and well known. (Well, I can understand it with Fedora as the never-finished work in progress, but not for the equivalent of the base CentOS as an exact clone.). -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com