Oh, that's right, it's 2020, the dumpster fire of a year. On 12/9/20 4:40 AM, J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: > > On 09/12/2020 09:26, centos at niob.at wrote: >> On 09/12/2020 07:16, Kingsly John wrote: >>> >>> A non-paying CentOS user is not a real loss for RHEL. But people dumping >>> CentOS for a non-RHEL clone is definitely going to impact their future >>> revenues as they are losing mindshare/goodwill/easy migration etc. <snip>> >> I am seeing this in practice already with juniors - they all use >> Ubuntu on their personal systems and they hate having to deal with >> RHEL. And their opinions matter in the long run. >> > And exactly the same applies to senior (or retired) admins on their home > computers. My main home machine runs about a dozen testbed VMs, > DHCP/DNS for the home network, Amanda, NFS and Samba for other machines, > ownCloud, Apache, Zotero and DokuWiki for the family. I want a stable > server under that lot, not a beta release. > Retired sr. Linux admin here also, also running CentOS at home. Moved to 7 this past summer (really dislike sstemd, hung onto 6 as long as possible). What I find outright offensive is that I see someone posted the specs for the Board... and #2 was "community outreach". Can someone point me to a post, ONE SINGLE POST, before this announcement, saying that this was being considered? That this might possibly happen? Show me that this was not just presented to the community as a fait accompli, non-negotiable. mark