[CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Fri Jan 17 20:33:06 UTC 2014
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote:
>
> Anyway, if you want a wide-open Linux, Les, you know where to get it.
Sigh..., It's complicated. I want stability and reliable security
updates. But I don't like being dependent on any single entity to
provide that. Maybe that goes back to relying on some AT&T unix
systems in what seems like another life. Even though semi-compatible
alternatives were available, being forced to change was somewhat
painful. So I don't necessarily want wide-open, just a little more
open than being married.
I don't really think the CentOS team has an evil plan here, but they
should take it as a compliment that I think they are smart enough to
fool me if they did want to do something like inject a hidden backdoor
with their builds. But, the bigger question is where it leaves us if
they just decide to quit after assimilating most of the related
systems under a build ecosystem that no one else can reproduce easily.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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