100% with Digimer here. I think there are no conspiracy theories. IMO RedHat does not want nor does it afford to mess up CentOS. All this energy should be put into contributing towards to the project, testing, helping out community. Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Digimer" <lists at alteeve.ca> > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org> > Sent: Saturday, 4 April, 2015 02:27:53 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] The future of centos > On 03/04/15 09:01 PM, Francis Gerund wrote: >> Almost everyone here has probably read this by now. If so, move along, >> nothing new here. But just in case you haven't, please take the time to >> read this. >> >> Here it is, in their own words: what Redhat thinks of Centos, and it's >> plans for the future of Centos. >> >> Can you read between the lines? In this case, it isn't very hard to do, >> IMHO. >> >> community.redhat.com/centos-faq > > How about you elaborate on your theory? > > Publicly, and I believe honestly, Red Hat wanted to ensure the long-term > health of the CentOS project. Many companies, when starting out, use > CentOS because of it's enterprise lineage and free-as-in-beer cost. > > Eventually, some of those companies will succeed and grow. Along the > line, they will realize the value and ROI of switching to full > enterprise support. Being on CentOS, it is then trivial for these > companies to switch the RHEL proper. > > There is no grand conspiracy here. It is very much in Red Hat's > interests to keep CentOS healthy and thriving. Will CentOS change over > time? Yes, of course. Every project, company (and people) need to change > and adapt, or else they will fade into irrelevance. > > -- > Digimer > Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ > What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without > access to education? > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos