On Fri, 11 Dec, 2020 at 07:48:25 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 12:21:35PM +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Dec, 2020 at 13:12:26 -0600, Tom Bishop wrote: > > > +1 > > > Looks like between Springdale, Rocky and CloudLinux there will be options. > > > Such a bad decision that RH made to do this... > > > > True. I just hope that the various alternatives will pool their resources. History has shown that RHEL derivatives require a lot of effort to maintain. It would be a shame to dissipate that effort among a number of competing distros. > > One problem has been that RedHat, when they see a clone is successful, will > tend to hire the lead developer. This is what happened to Scientific Linux, > back when CentOS was late with a release (one of the head developers had > the temerity to get married around that time and somehow, that took some of > his time). Scientific Linux was gaining popularity and RH hired their head > developer. This was before RH was bought by IBM. > That's a good point. It's a perpetual whack-a-mole. But I prefer to whack an open-source mole rather than a proprietary one. > One assumes however, that this wouldn't happen with OEL, though one never > knows. OEL = Oracle Enterprise Linux? There is no reason in heaven or hell to trust them.