On 10/31/18 1:32 PM, Dave Stevens wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:20:45 -0400 > Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Dave Stevens wrote: >>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 12:34:56 +0100 >>> Tom H <tomh0665@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>>> (in git form these days) >>> >>> another monopolist service, yes? >>> not reassuring >> >> No. The sources are at https://git.centos.org/. There's >> nothing there you can't access via free software. >> >> Perhaps you're conflating Github with git? >> > > as far as I can see Centos is owned by Red Hat and so by IBM if the > offer goes through, Guthub is owned by Microsoft. Increasing > concentration of services and so control is routine, just not what I'd > prefer to see. First off, CentOS may be _affiliated_ with Red Hat, but they are not _owned_ by Red Hat. CentOS is run by centos.org and is a community- supported program. Yes, they use Red Hat's source RPMs, but they rebrand them and publishe the resulting content as (essentially) "free" RHEL. There is no commercial support for CentOS. CentOS follows the RHEL update schedule, but lags a bit behind due to the extra work they have to do to rebrand things. Yes, Github is owned by Microsoft, but the sources for CentOS are on a git server at the CentOS farm (https://git.centos.org), NOT on Github. Red Hat puts nothing they generate on Github. Neither does CentOS. If there is code there, some third party did it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Diplomacy: The art of saying "Nice doggy!" until you can find a - - big enough rock. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
