[CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

Wed Jan 8 11:19:44 UTC 2014
Johan Vermeulen <jvermeulen at cawdekempen.be>

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
>
>
>
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