On 1/17/2014 8:12 AM, IonPacepa wrote:
> don't see
> how we benefit when a large company comes in and buys their way into the
> board and pays off all members. Where is the Community's say in this? This
> is a payoff. Will we get releases sooner? Will we know how to rebuild the
> build environment for ourselves? What if Redhat slowly makes using CentOS
> painful to incentivize using RHEL? If Redhat had good intentions why don't
> they give unsupported RHEL for free themselves. Granted the probably want to
> keep OEL and the like from being able to freely rebuild and plagiarize and
> charge money for their stuff, but we , the Community, the masses of users,
> are stuck now between behemoths and their lackeys taking payouts throwing us
> whatever table scraps they want and we are powerless to change this.
Sorry, could not resist...:-) reminds me of,
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer.