On Thu, April 2, 2015 2:55 pm, Always Learning wrote: > > On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 13:08 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> CentOS releases are NOT the same as EUS and have never been .. yet that >> seems to be what people expect. We want there to be no doubt on this >> issue. > > Is there a commercial motive for this 'unwelcome by most' change ? > > If Centos is the same as RHEL then RH can loose valuable sales income > because customers, actual and potential, use free Centos. However if > Centos version numbers are vastly different from RHEL version numbers > and there is no reliable method of equating Centos sub-versions with > RHEL sub-versions, RH gains extra sales because of the uncertainty of > Centos being 'just like' reliable RHEL. Indeed. And some conspiracy theorist might add this happened after CentOS "marrying" RH (well, getting tighter relations that is) ;-) Just a joke to put down everybody's fighting mood (or likely switching fire onto myself ;-( Valeri > > Just a casual thought. > > > -- > Regards, > > Paul. > England, EU. Je suis Charlie. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++