(five years on...) On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 11:25 AM Jos Vos <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:22:23PM -0600, [email protected] wrote: > > > Now that Redhat has bought Centos... > > Red Hat did not buy CentOS.
I guess he should have said "acquired". https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__investors.redhat.com_ir-2Dresources_investor-2Dfaqs_what-2Dacquisitions-2Dhas-2Dred-2Dhat-2Dmade&d=DwIBaQ&c=gRgGjJ3BkIsb5y6s49QqsA&r=gd8BzeSQcySVxr0gDWSEbN-P-pgDXkdyCtaMqdCgPPdW1cyL5RIpaIYrCn8C5x2A&m=BV0CfvsDb_uC3rnZYwldekc4Iywghe9P6dycLXOnQMc&s=r6HX73U2aHBisE3xexunUm2_-aTc6aBuKJ_m6KivVF8&e= Now that Red Hat owns CentOS and IBM owns Red Hat, I wonder when CentOS 8 will be released. Does Scientific Linux (principals and/or community) have a contingency plan if the answer turns out to be "never"? - Pat On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 5:29 AM Jos Vos <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 04:37:37PM -0800, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:22:23PM -0600, [email protected] wrote: > > > > Please reread the news coverage and the press releases. > > > > My reading between the lines is that CentOS people were made > > an offer they could not refuse. > > > > BTW, today, whois shows centos.org as registered by Red Hat. (Used to be > > registered by one of the CentOS main developers). > > Not specifically meant as an answer to you, but as a comment in general: > > Some open source people (a community I consider myself part of, but > not in this sense) tend to act like communists and look at companies > acting in the open source world in a suspicious way (this word has > already been used in this thread), some maybe even think capitalism > is bad in general. > > Well, some companies indeed are evil and try to hijack and/or abuse > open source software and its community. > > But in general, remember that today's major open source projects > couldn't live without the support from (commercial) companies, where > Red Hat is even one of the main players. And until now RH has proven > to play the game pretty well. > > Without Red Hat there was not Fedora, no RHEL, no CentOS (also not > in the previous incarnation) and no SL. > > It's understandable that people around the CentOS community look at > the RH/CentOS case in a critical way: I also did that myself. But > we have to live with the situation and it's not that bad now. > > Just my $0.02... > > -- > -- Jos Vos <[email protected]> > -- X/OS Experts in Open Systems BV | Phone: +31 20 6938364 > -- Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Fax: +31 20 6948204 >
