[CentOS] CentOS 8 Stream: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Thu Dec 10 11:46:53 UTC 2020
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 10.12.20 um 07:09 schrieb Nicolas Kovacs:
> Le 10/12/2020 à 00:51, Joshua Kramer a écrit :
>> There have been hundreds of other messages that describe exactly what
>> RedHat loses in this deal so I won't go into that here.  But branding
>> oneself as a "bad faith actor" is usually a terrible way to try to
>> pick up a little bit of subscription revenue.  In the end it's going
>> to be a losing scenario.  This is an absolutely UNMITIGATED DISASTER
>> from a marketing and community goodwill standpoint.
> 
> Reactions from competent sources all over the world are downright negative.
> 
> https://linuxfr.org/news/centos-se-saborde-t-elle
> 
> https://kofler.info/nachruf-auf-centos/
> 
> And this petition launched a bit more than a day ago already counts 3500
> signatures (and growing fast):
> 
> https://www.change.org/p/centos-governing-board-do-not-destroy-centos-by-using-it-as-a-rhel-upstream
> 
> If I was a CentOS developer or a Red Hat employee, a mere glance at the
> comments would inform me that I've just made a disastrous decision. Even if
> there *may* be *some* technical merits to it.

It must be a strong management when they roll back. Hope is the last one 
that die ...

--
Leon