On 01/09/2014 09:01 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Warren Young wrote: >> >> This is a good thing. > > If that's it, I agree. We'll just have to see how it all plays out. I can think of 101 different reasons as to why this move is good for RedHat, and no reason why them picking up CentOS only to kill it would be good for them. If RedHat were to kill CentOS it would just leave the door open to other clones to step in and fill the gap, other ones such as SL or puias which are not as strict in cloning RHEL, so could give RedHat a bad name if the clone has problems, or worse yet, Oracle. The worst thing I can see happening here is that RedHat may decide at some point in the future that the relationship isn't working out and will simply release CentOS back as a fully community-driven project, they've done this before on other projects and it's not a malicious move that kills the project it's just going separate ways. If this were to happen then CentOS would be no worse off than it was before the move to RedHat in the first place. Peter