[CentOS] The future of centos

[Always Learning]

On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:10 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:

> Now if you look at the SIGs coming up and delivering content - it
> should again be pretty clear what sort of content we are facilitating
> here.

I think it inevitable that Red Hat will introduce some closed source
packages for the its paying customers, and thus hinder parasitic Oracle,
whilst continuing the development of the base system. This will probably
not affect the majority of 'standard' Centos users.

We have a proven reliable *free* operating system produced by The Centos
Team, just as good as RHEL although RH is preventing Centos certifying a
comparison. The comparison between RH and Centos versions is gradually
being separated, but never-the-less we retain a professional operating
system entirely free of licensing costs which satisfies our needs. And,
as a bonus, it is not Windoze.

If this had been explained at the beginning of the take-over of an
operating system clone by the originating source ('upstream') which
desired a de facto 'fork' to protect its commercial interests.


Back to work on RH Centos :-)


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Paul.
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