On 03/04/15 09:25 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-04-03 at 20:01 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote: > >> Here it is, in their own words: what Redhat thinks of Centos, and it's >> plans for the future of Centos. >> >> community.redhat.com/centos-faq > > It is what many of us feared. > > I never noticed any of the Centos bosses stating they are on a Centos > board dominated by Red Hat employees. > > It is a de facto take-over of Centos by Red Hat. Centos Independence has > been "sold" to Red Hat by the supposed guardians of Centos. > > "The role of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Developer Program is to > provide participants with the tools and resources they need to develop > on and for deployment on Red Hat Enterprise Linux; CentOS does not fit > into this. ......... > > ".... developing on CentOS does not guarantee that the resulting > application will work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux." > > So I was 100% correct when I wrote earlier > > "Am I mistaken in thinking, after reading recent postings, Centos is > slowly moving in a different direction to RHEL and the removal of useful > and informative sub-version numbers is merely the first of many > manifestations of the growing-gap, or eventual gulf, between "upstream" > and Centos ?" > > "Will Centos versions eventually become incompatible, partially or > wholly, with its parent's RHEL versions ? I can understand why that > would be commercially advantageous to RH." > > This Centos mailing list, just like the Centos name and logo is the > corporate property of Red Hat Inc. How much did Red Hat pay the > guardians of the Centos brand to sell-out the whole of Centos to RH ? > > I do not know how this previously unpublished commercial take-over of > Centos will affect the running of our systems. Hopefully things will > continue smoothly for everyone's benefit. Perhaps a Fork will emerge. > > I wonder why this take-over was continually denied by Centos bosses at > the beginning. > > Probably to prevent effective forks, Red Hat will deliberately make it > more difficult for the community to compile their sources and produce a > workable distribution closely resembling RHEL. One thing is for sure, > all the advantages of Centos development will enrich RH whilst Centos > will lack all the advantages of RHEL. > > That is commercial business folks ! If you and others believe this to be the case, then form an organization and fork CentOS. Or, do as CentOS did in the beginning and recompile the RHEL binaries to be binary-compatible and create your own OS. It is the open-source way, and I am not being sarcastic. -- 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?