FYI CentOS does not need the blessing of IBM any more than it already needs
the blessing of Red Hat. Here's some reading material you might find
interesting.
https://www.centos.org/about/
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/

Change of management at Red Hat will likely have no serious impact on the
development of Fedora and CentOS.


On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 11:32 AM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 10:49:48 -0700
> Richard England <[email protected]> dijo:
>
> >IBM will probably continue their Linux efforts. The better question is
> >what will they do with Fedora and the desktop. IBM may have little
> >interest in the desktop and their interest in non-revenue initiatives
> >like Fedora and CentOS are questionable, as well.
>
> My take is that Redhat started Fedora as a test bed. I used it for a
> couple of years before giving up on it. Yes, it's free, and in some ways
> a competitor to the bigger desktop providers like Mint and Ubuntu, but
> I couldn't put up with the constant, almost mandatory updates.
> Nevertheless,  while I bitched about having to update, I had to
> recognize that I knew the purpose of Fedora before I started using it -
> I got a free desktop in exchange for being Redhat's guinea pig. So, as
> long as Redhat needs a place to test new ideas, Fedora will probably
> continue.
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