[CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS Linux 7 (1503 ) on x86_64

Thu Apr 2 22:54:02 UTC 2015
Always Learning <centos at u64.u22.net>

> 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.


> On Thu, April 2, 2015 2:55 pm, Always Learning wrote:
> >
> > 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.


On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 16:07 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>
> Indeed. And some conspiracy theorist might add this happened after CentOS
> "marrying" RH (well, getting tighter relations that is) ;-)

I also noticed it happened after the take-over of Centos by RH, the
funding of Centos people by RH, the legal 'ownership' of Centos branding
by RH's legal department, the surprising increased interest on this list
by Red Hat people (some using non-RH email addresses), ditto Fedora
people.

In business when one pays money, one inevitably expects a reward greater
than the sum of money paid or invested.

Like everyone else I am grateful for the efforts of the Centos team
which brings us a reliable Centos product.


-- 
Regards,

Paul.
England, EU.      Je suis Charlie.